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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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Fourthly, Wherein doth the freeness of the grace of God appear, in the matter of our salvation?
First, There is a great deal of free grace in this, that God should ordain us to eternal life and salvation. 2 Tim. 1.9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, ⟨p. 65⟩but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began. Again
Secondly, (To name them) Is it not great grace, mercy, and favour that God should send his own Son from Heaven to dye for us, and to purchase our salvation, yet so he did. Ye are bought with a price, what price? the blood of Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for you, 1 Tim. 2.6.
Secondly, (To name them) Is it not great grace, mercy, and favour that God should send his own Son from Heaven to dye for us, and to purchase our salvation, yet so he did. Ye are bought with a price, what price? the blood of Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransome for you, 1 Tim. 2.6.