A discourse of the saving grace of God

O! how Free are these Offers! how Easy these Terms! It would be intolerable Impudence, to desire these upon any Terms more Free. Would you have Christ your Friend, and not Love him? Marry you without your Consent? or take Care for you, and not Trust him? who can be so unreasonable? The Conditions here are of such a Nature, that it is even all one as if they were absolute: No Promise of this Nature can be more Free, more absolute; for the Nature of what is Promised, will admit of no other Terms, they are as free as can be. Can Christ Come to you, if you will not let him in? or Entertain you, if not Come to him? or Give himself, if not receive him? Nor need you say, these are not easy, we cannot do them of our selves. Christ prevents this; they are easy, if he Concur and Assist; and he engages to assist all those who have Interest in the Promises, all that Come to him.

O! how Free are these Offers! how Easie these Terms! It would be intolerable Impudence, to desire these upon any Terms more Free. Would you have Christ your Friend, and not Love him? Marry you without your Consent? or take Care for you, and not Trust him? who can be so unreasonable? The Conditions here are of such a Nature, that it is even all one as if they were absolute: No Promise of this Nature can be more Free, more absolute; for the Nature of what is Promised, will admit of no other Terms, they are as free as can be. Can Christ Come to you, if you will not let him in? or Entertain you, if not Come to him? or Give himself, if not receive him? Nor need you say, these are not easie, we cannot do them of our selves. Christ prevents this; they are easie, if he Concur and Assist; and he engages to assist all those who have Interest in the Promises, all that Come to him.

6. If the Condition be Promised: He that annexes a Condition to a Promise, and withal Promises to give that Condition, does all one as if he Promised absolutely. Suppose Hiram had Promised Solomon Cedars to build the Temple, upon Condition they were Cut down; if Hiram had also Promised to Cut them down, his former Promise had hereby become absolute. Or suppose Pharaoh had Promised Jacob that he should come and be Entertained in Egypt, upon Condition that Wagons were provided to carry him; if Pharaoh should also send him Wagons (as he did by Joseph,