The Sinners Sanctuary, Title page – To the reader
THE SINNERS SANCTUARY; OR, A discovery made, of those glorious priviledges offered unto the penitent and faithful under the Gospel: Unfolding their freedom from death, condemnation, and the Law, in fourty Sermons, upon Romans Chap. 8.
By that eminent Preacher of the Gospel, Mr. Hugh Binning, late Minister at Govan.
Heb. 11.4. —And by it he being dead, yet speaketh.
Isaiah 38.16. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
Zanch. Thes. 3. de Dispens. &c. Dispensare solet Christus hanc salutis gratiam, per Sermonem veritatis, hoc est, per Evangelium salutis nostr….
EDINBVRGH, Printed by George Swintown and Iames Glen, and are to be sold at their Shops, in the Parliament-yard. Anno Dom. 1670.
Christian Reader,
EXperience hath proved, that few Posthumous Works are perfect, most of them being lame for their parts, and almost all of them wanting the last touch of the Authors Pen, and the lustre thereby given for publick view; besides that, there is a general aversation in them that survive, to mix with the Genius of the dead. This little Piece upon the eighth Chapter to the Romanes, labour under all these disadvantages being imperfect, as to parts, by the immature death of the Author, and for ought I know, never designed for publick view, could not have the last touch of his Pen: Neither hath his Genius appeared in another person, to pursue his Work; yet because many imperfect Writings have been useful to the Church of Christ, and have provoked others with holy emulation, to pursue the perfecting of things well begun; observing also the universal acceptance that another imperfect Piece of the same Authors hath found with all who have seen it: I have been perswaded to let these go to the worlds view, not doubting but they shall find the same acceptance, and be, through the blessing of God, rendered profitable to the Christian Reader.
P. G.