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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.
So that, unless Man will, when he is left indifferent, to will or not to will, electing Grace, redeeming Grace, renewing ⟨p. 111⟩Grace, shall be of no effect, shall never arrive at what it tends to. And if it be rendered of none effect, it is rendered inglorious, it is defeated, defaced, and the glory of it turned into shame. But so it must be, if Man will; all the Grace of God must be in vain, and all the Glory of it vanish.
Thus is God evidently made dependant on Mans Will, even for his Glory, that of his Grace; and he will as soon be subjected to the Will of Man in any thing, in all things, as the greatest Concerns of his Glory.
The Grace of God, where it should appear in its greatest lustre, and was designed for the greatest Honour of Father, Son, and Spirit; must wait as a Handmaid on Mans degenerate Will, and be ordered at its Arbitrement, and stand to its Pleasure, whether it shall come to any thing or nothing; whether it shall have any Glory or none.
Let them believe it who can, I can never believe that the Doctrine is of God, which offers such an intolerable Indignity to him: If there were no other Argument against it, this seems enough to me. The