Bible. Psalms CL -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800; Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 17th century
It is true that the least ake of his least finger is _infiniti
meriti, sed non definiti meriti_, that is of an infinite merit, yet not
that determined ransome for the sinnes of the whole world. It cost him
more to redeeme soules, [dg]_he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for
our iustification_, hee suffered for vs and that death, and that a
violent death, and of all violent deaths the most accursed death on
the Crosse.
[Sidenote df: _Aduancement of learning lib. 2. pag. 116._]
[Sidenote dg: _Rom. 4. 25._]
The worke of sanctification is a noble act also, for euery man if you
rightly consider his making is a wonder, I am saith our [dh]Prophet
fearfully and wonderfully made: but a good man if you consider his new
making is a wonderfull wonder, as [di]_Paul_ speakes _a spectacle to men
and Angels_, as the vulgar Latine runnes in the 68. Psalme, at the last
verse, _mirabilis deus in sanctis_, O God wonderfull art thou in thy
Saints.
[Sidenote dh: _Psalm. 139. 13._]
[Sidenote di: _1. Cor. 4. 9._]
But _Dauid_ [dk]here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in
gouerning & garding his people from their enemies, [dl]O come hither and
behold the workes of God, how wonderfull hee is in his doing toward the
Children of men, he turned the sea into drye land so that his people
went on foot thorough the middest of the sea, the [dm]waters were a wall
vnto them on the right hand and on their left; but the waues of the Sea
returned and couered the chariots and horsemen euen all the hoast of
_Pharaoh_ that pursued them. Almighty God raigned hailstones out of
heauen vpon the cursed Amorites at Bethoran, and they were more
([dn]saith the text) that dyed with the haile, then they whom the
Children of Israell slew with the sword. And when Duke _Iosua_ prayed,
_Sunne stay thou in Gibeon, & thou Moone in the valey of Aialon_:
_the Sunne abode and the Moone stood still vntill the people auenged
themselues vpon their enemies_. When _Zenacherib_ and his innumerous
hoast came to fight against _Hezekiah_ King of Iuda, Gods Angell in one
night slew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians. 2. Kings 19.
[Sidenote dk: _Placid. Parmen and the english Com. dedicated to
M. Herlakinden._]
[Sidenote dl: _Psalm. 66. 4._]
[Sidenote dm: _Exod. 14. 29._]
[Sidenote dn: _Iosua 10._]
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