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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.
2. As the season of Grace is the accepted time, or the time of God's free acceptation of sinners, it engageth us to a present improvement of this season of grace upon the account of self-interest: for the neglecting of free grace makes the divine vengeance,
1. Unavoidable: and secondly, Insupportable.
1. Ʋnavoidable: and secondly, Insupportable.
1. Neglecting of free of grace makes vengeance unavoidable: If grace be neglected, what shall save you? if grace shall not save thee, works cannot save thee. The neglecter of grace concludes himself under a necessity of damnation: He rendeth the book of mercy: He throweth away the remedy, the cordial that serveth for his reviving. He that accepts not of life and Salvation by free gift, must have it by earning, must have it by working; and earn it we cannot. Thou canst not obtain reconciliation with God upon easier terms for thy self, than Christ obtained it for believers; and what terms were those, but even perfect, and to thee impossible obedience? You cannot dig: perfect doing is impossible: you are lost, if ashamed to beg at the door of free grace for the dole of mercy.
1. Neglecting of free of grace makes vengeance unavoidable: If grace be neglected, what shall save you? if grace shall not save thee, works cannot save thee. The neglecter of grace concludes himself under a necessity of damnation: He rendeth the book of mercy: He throweth away the remedy, the cordial that serveth for his reviving. He that accepts not of life and Salvation by free gift, must have it by earning, must have it by working; and earn it we cannot. Thou canst not obtain reconciliation with God upon easier terms for thy self, than Christ obtained it for believers; and what terms were those, but even perfect, and to thee impossible obedience? You cannot dig: perfect doing is impossible: you are lost, if asham'd to beg at the door of free grace for the dole of mercy.