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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 5: Of the Covenant of Promise, as manifested to David.
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4. In that we are by nature no better than others that are without God,1 and without Covenant: what makes the difference betwixt us and them, but this free Grace of God? Is there any reason in us why one is taken into a Covenant, and another is not? Nay, I'll tell you a wonder; so it pleaseth the Lord, that sometimes God chooseth the worst, and leaves those that are better than they; We read that Publicans and Harlots were taken in, and the righteous Generation which justified themselves, and were justified by others, were passed by: surely God respects none for any thing in them; his design is that the freeness of his Grace might be seen in those whom he takes to himself. Hence the Apostle, God chooseth the foolish things of this world, and the weak things of this world, base and despised things; 2whilst in the mean time he passeth by the wise and mighty, and things of high esteem, that all men might see, it is the Grace of God, and not any thing in man, by which we are taken into Covenant with him.
4. In that we are by nature no better than others that are without God,1 and without Covenant: what makes the difference betwixt us and them, but this free Grace of God? Is there any reason in us why one is taken into a Covenant, and another is not? Nay, I'le tell you a wonder; so it pleaseth the Lord, that sometimes God chuseth the worst, and leaves those that are better than they; We read that Publicans and Harlots were taken in, and the righteous Generation which justified themselves, and were justified by others, were passed by: surely God respects none for any thing in them; his design is that the freeness of his Grace might be seen in those whom he takes to himself. Hence the Apostle, God chuseth the foolish things of this world, and the weak things of this world, base and despised things; 2whilest in the mean time he passeth by the wise and mighty, and things of high esteem, that all men might see, it is the Grace of God, and not any thing in man, by which we are taken into Covenant with him.
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