HKB
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Often appears with: translation of souls · religious law vs gospel preaching · rahab in heaven · providence and divine governance · papal corruption · equity, mercy, and pardon · divine foreknowledge · custom and unwritten law · corruption, patronage, and bribery
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
Rahab’s name and story are used as an example of how divine foresight arranges events and places souls in the appropriate heaven, while the speaker also criticizes corruption of church leadership and legalistic worship at Rome.
Revolving Nature, which a signet is To mortal wax, doth practise well her art, But not one inn distinguish from another; Thence happens it that Esau differeth In seed from Jacob; and Quirinus comes From sire so vile that he is given to Mars. A generated nature its own way Would always make like its progenitors, If Providence divine were not triumphant. Now that which was behind thee is before thee;…