THE MERCY OF GOD.
…
The Mercy of God
differs, in some respects;
both from
The Love
and
The Grace of God.
…
The Mercy of God
differs from the Love of God
in it The Objects of
The Mercy of God,
which are Individual Souls,
and
The Mercy of God
differs from the Love of God
in The Order of God’s Operation
of LOVE and MERCY.
…
In The Objects of
The Mercy of God,
who are The Individual Souls
upon which God Exercises His Mercy
The Mercy of God
differs from the Love of God
in that
The Individual Souls
upon which God Exercises His Mercy
are regarded under different considerations
than
When God Exercises His Love
on those Same Individual Souls.
…
In The Order of God’s Operation
of LOVE and MERCY
GOD PROPELLED HIS LOVE
Originally on The Individual Souls,
when those Individual Souls
were Among the Pure Mass of Creature-ship,
as Un-fallen.
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GOD LOVED
INDIVIDUAL CHOSEN SOULS
when those Individual Souls
were Among the pure mass of Creature-ship,
as Un-fallen, First,
upon which God would afterward
Exercise His Mercy.
…
THE LOVE of GOD
Continued with
those Individual Souls
which were Chosen when they were
Among the pure mass of Creature-ship,
as Un-fallen,
to then Being Viewed by God
in their Fallen State,
and
through all
the imperfections of this Life,
and
By THE OPERATION of GOD’S
ETERNAL SALVATION
THROUGH
THE BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST,
THE LOVE of GOD
Follows those
INDIVIDUAL CHOSEN SOULS
to Eternal Happiness.
…
GOD’S OPERATION of MERCY,
however,
Supposes its Objects are found miserable,
in their Fallen State,
and
in the imperfections of their Sin-Cursed Nature,
as if Adam had already Fallen into sin.
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IN TIME
Adam had Fallen into sin
BEFORE
INDIVIDUAL CHOSEN SOULS
were Created
and
NATURALLY BORN
into This LIFE,
WITH THE NATURE
of THEIR
GREATEST GRAND-FATHER,
ADAM.
…
So, we were
“Born in Adam”,
IN ADAM’S NATURE
but GOD Had
ALREADY CONSIDERED
INDIVIDUAL CHOSEN SOULS
in LOVE.
…
In God’s Order of Operation,
The MERCY of GOD
TOOK PLACE FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE
AFTER ADAM SINNED
AND
FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE
WHEN GOD “SAW”
INDIVIDUAL CHOSEN SOULS
IN THEIR STATE
of BEING “SINNERS”.
…
Although
LOVE and MERCY
TOOK PLACE
AT THE SAME INSTANCE IN GOD,
MEANING FROM ETERNITY PAST,
WITH
LOVE OPERATING
IN GOD’S DIVINE PLAN
TOGETHER WITH MERCY,
yet
THE LOVE of GOD
seems to Work by
THE MERCY of GOD,
and
THE MERCY of GOD
from
THE LOVE of GOD.
…
When The Objects of
THE MERCY of GOD
Had Been Viewed
as Spiritually Dead in sin,
“THEN”, FOR
THE MERCY of GOD,
THE LOVE of GOD.
Stirs Up
THE MERCY of GOD
to Quicken or
MAKE INDIVIDUAL
SPIRITUALLY DEAD SOULS
SPIRITUALLY ALIVE
with Jesus Christ,
and
in themselves,
as we see:
God,
“Who is Rich in Mercy,
for the Great Love
With Which He Loved us”
( Ephesians 2:4, 5 ).
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THE MERCY of GOD
also differs from
THE GRACE of GOD
since although
All Mercy is Grace,
because
All Mercy is Free,
and
All Mercy is Unmerited,
and
All Mercy is Undeserved;
yet
All Grace is not Mercy.
…
Much Grace and Favor
are Shown to the Elect Angels;
as in THE TRIUNE GODHEAD’S
Choice of the Elect Angels
in Jesus Christ;
in the Preservation of the Elect Angels
from the Apostasy
that others of their Angel species
fell into;
and
Grace and Favor
are Shown to the Elect Angels
in Constituting Jesus Christ
The Head of the Elect Angels
by Whose
ETERNALLY GIVING GRACE
the Elect Angels are Confirmed
in the State in which they were Created;
and
as well as
The Grace and Favor
is Shown to the Elect Angels
in
the Elect Angels
Being Indulged
with
The Presence of God,
and
Communion with Him.
…
WE SEE
The Elect Angels
always behold GOD’S Face in Heaven,
IN MATTHEW 18: 10, 11;
“See that you
Do Not Despise
one of these little ones;
Because I Say to you,
That in Heaven
their Angels
Do Always Behold
the Face of My Father
which is in Heaven.
…
“For the Son of man
is come to Save
that which was Lost.”
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All of this GRACE of GOD
SHOWN to THE ELECT ANGELS is
Abundant Grace,
but is not
THE MERCY of GOD.
…
Since The Elect Angels
WERE OBJECTS of this
ABUNDANT GRACE of GOD
yet
The Elect Angels
were Never were Miserable,
AND
NEVER SEEN
in A STATE of SIN
and
therefore
The Elect Angels were not
Objects of Mercy.
…
So, it is in these ways,
The Mercy of God
differs, in some respects;
both from
The Love
and
The Grace of God.
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Adapted from
A Body of Doctrinal Divinity
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Aware of The Godhead 