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A discourse of the saving grace of God
A discourse of the saving grace of God by ... David Clarkson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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.
Or, if his Will was not undeclinably fixed on that which was good, but left ⟨p. 88⟩in a state of indifferency to that or the contrary; so that he might have observed his Fathers Will, or not observed it; might have loved him, or not loved him; might hav• fulfilled all righteousness, or not fulfilled it: And if he might have sinned, or not sinned, then he was not God; for he that is God cannot sin.
So that as they state the freedom of Mans Will, either he was not Man, or he was not God; and either way he could not be Mediator, who must be both. Thus all the advantages Sinners have by his Mediation perish; and all the Glory the Lord designed to himself thereby, is blasted by the extravagant Doctrine of Free-will.
(18.) It defaces Redemption by Christ, and leaves little or no place, or no necessity, either of Satisfaction or Merit, in his Obedience and Sufferings.
1. He did not merit Faith, or Regeneration, or Holiness, or Perseverance, for all, or for any particular Persons. They declare expressly, that it is foolishly said, that Christ procured Faith or Regeneration for any: Their Principles engage them to maintain this; for if he merited these for any, it would have been necessary that