A discourse of the saving grace of God

For USE. (1.) Acknowledge this Grace? How? By getting high Apprehensions of it, and entertaining frequent Thoughts about it. Say, How precious are thy Thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them! Let the Meditation hereof be sweeter than the Honey and the Honey-comb. (2.) Let this beget suitable Affections, Love, Joy, Admiration, Delight, both in the Fountain and Streams of Free-Grace. (3.) Let it be a Motive to all Holiness and Obedience. Let the Grace of God, the Love of Christ constrain you to an Obsequiousness to him, and Affectionateness to one another. If God so loved us, how ought we love one another! (4.) Let it strengthen our Faith in Afflictions, ⟨p. 148⟩and Temptations, from the Power of Sin and sense of unworthiness. (5.) Hold it forth to others: Take all Occasions to magnify it; oppose every Practice and Opinion that obscures the Lustre of it. Use it as a Touch-stone, to discover what Persons are most holy, what Tenets are most true, even those which most illustrate Free Grace. (6.) By glorying in the Lord; using it to make us and keep us humble. We had nothing to merit, nothing to move, for Salvation: what we are, or have, we are by, and have from this Grace. Let no man boast, Rom. 9. If you have any laudable, amiable Accomplishments, give the glory to God.

For ƲSE. (1.) Acknowledge this Grace? How? By getting high Apprehensions of it, and entertaining frequent Thoughts about it. Say, How precious are thy Thoughts to me, O God! how great is the summ of them! Let the Meditation hereof be sweeter than the Honey and the Honey-combe. (2.) Let this beget suitable Affections, Love, Joy, Admiration, Delight, both in the Fountain and Streams of Free-Grace. (3.) Let it be a Motive to all Holiness and Obedience. Let the Grace of God, the Love of Christ constrain you to an Obsequiousness to him, and Affectionateness to one another. If God so loved us, how ought we love one another! (4.) Let it strengthen our Faith in Afflictions, ⟨p. 148⟩and Temptations, from the Power of Sin and sense of unworthiness. (5.) Hold it forth to others: Take all Occasions to magnifie it; oppose every Practice and Opinion that obscures the Lustre of it. Use it as a Touch-stone, to discover what Persons are most holy, what Tenents are most true, even those which most illustrate Free Grace. (6.) By glorying in the Lord; using it to make us and keep us humble. We had nothing to merit, nothing to move, for Salvation: what we are, or have, we are by, and have from this Grace. Let no man boast,