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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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Fifthly, Salvation is a work of grace; and seeing we are saved by grace alone, why then doth God choose to save men in this way of free-grace? I Answer,
Fifthly, Salvation is a work of grace; and seeing we are saved by grace alone, why then doth God chuse to save men in this way of free-grace? I Answer,
First, It is because this is the most honourable way unto God; the Papists are not ashamed to say that it is most honour to a man to be saved by his works, but I am sure it is more honour, and more honourable unto God to save by his free-grace.
Secondly, If there was somewhat of the good pleasure of God in the worlds condemnation, all the reason in the world then that there should be free grace in the way of Salvation. Pray how came Adam to stand for the whole world? He was not chosen by us, why it was the good pleasure of God that he should stand for the whole world, and that he sinning, we should all be guilty of sin by, and through him: So I say, if there was (as I may speak with reverence) somewhat of the good pleasure of God in the old worlds condemnation, why then should there not be free-grace in the souls Salvation, Rom. 5.15. But not as the offence, so also ⟨p. 73⟩is the free-gift, for if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift of grace which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Secondly, If there was somewhat of the good pleasure of God in the worlds condemnation, all the reason in the world then that there should be freegrace in the way of Salvation. Pray how came Adam to stand for the whole world? He was not chosen by us, why it was the good pleasure of God that he should stand for the whole world, and that he sinning, we should all be guilty of sin by, and through him: So I say, if there was (as I may speak with reverence) somewhat of the good pleasure of God in the old worlds condemnation, why then should there not be free-grace in the souls Salvation,