A25478:353
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 4: Now is the time. OR, Instructions for the present improving the season of Grace. Serm. IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The gospel is called grace; because it is the instrument under the Spirit of God of bestowing the benefits of free grace upon us. It is an invitation to the benefits of free grace: and it is our warrant of receiving those benefits, ⟨p. 88⟩and of applying them. The Gospel is not only a story to tell us what is done, and what is obtained for believers; but it is a Testament to cause and to show unto us our interest in them by Faith. We shall lay hold upon it, when he who Ordained the Gospel doth accompany it. The Gospel brings Salvation, Tit. 2.11. Therefore the Gospel is called the Ministration of Righteousness, and the Ministration of the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3.8, 9. The Instrument made use of by the Spirit of God for enabling us to apply the Righteousness of Christ, and all the benefits of Free Grace contained in it. And so I have opened the first thing in the Exhortation, and shown what we are to understand by the Grace of God, even the Doctrine of the Gospel.
3. The gospel is called grace; because it is the instrument under the Spirit of God of bestowing the benefits of free grace upon us. It is an invitation to the benefits of free grace: and it is our warrant of receiving those benefits, ⟨p. 88⟩and of applying them. The Gospel is not only a story to tell us what is done, and what is obtained for believers; but it is a Testament to cause and to shew unto us our interest in them by Faith. We shall lay hold upon it, when he who Ordained the Gospel doth accompany it. The Gospel brings Salvation, Tit. 2.11. Therefore the Gospel is called the Ministration of Righteousness, and the Ministration of the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3.8, 9. The Instrument made use of by the Spirit of God for enabling us to apply the Righteousness of Christ, and all the benefits of Free Grace contained in it. And so I have opened the first thing in the Exhortation, and shewn vvhat vve are to understand by the Grace of God, even the Doctrine of the Gospel.