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The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference…
The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridge ...The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1671
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Thirdly, Sometimes salvation is put for eternal glory, who would have all men to be saved, Jew and Gentile, and this salvation is the gift of God too. Rom. 6.23. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord; Now salvation as to the Author of it, as to the means of it, and as to the salvation it self, it is all of free grace, all given in a way of free love and grace; and therefore it must needs be, that much of the free grace and love of God is laid out in our salvation.
But you will say, if it be so, that by free grace we are saved, then what need we use the means of salvation; you say we are saved by grace, by free grace; wherefore then need we endeavour.
But you will say, if it be so, that by free grace we are saved, then what need we use the means of salvation; you say we are saved by grace, by free grace; wherefore then need we indeavour.
First, Yes we are to endeavour; do you not use your endeavour to get your daily bread? and yet that is the gift of God: ⟨p. 64⟩your livelihood is the gift of God; for you say, give us this day our daily bread; it is then the gift of God, and yet we are to use the means: and so we are to do what we can, although not what we should in the matter of our salvation; because by our endeavour, and using the means we show our dependence upon God, and our obedience to him, because he hath commanded it; For,
First, Yes we are to indeavour; do you not use your indeavour to get your daily bread? and yet that is the gift of God: ⟨p. 64⟩