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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.
And this being our State and temper naturally, can you think there was any thing in us, that could have moved the Lord to save us? What? can Hatred, such desperate Enmity, such prodigious Malice against the Lord, move him to love us? ⟨p. 17⟩O, if free Grace had not moved it self, we had persisted in our opposition against the Lord; and had been eternally miserable, as those deserve to be, who are found fighters against God, and open Enemies to him.
There are other Demonstrations, that Salvation is of Grace only, which may be drawn from God himself; the consideration of his All-sufficiency, Sovereignty.
There are other Demonstrations, that Salvation is of Grace only, which may be drawn from God himself; the consideration of his Allsufficiency, Soveraignty.
(1.) The All-sufficiency and independency of God. He stood in no need at all of man, either for Happiness or Glory, the least degree of either. He had been eternally as happy, as glorious, if man had never been, or been ever miserable.
(1.) The Allsufficiency and independency of God. He stood in no need at all of man, either for Happiness or Glory, the least degree of either. He had been eternally as happy, as glorious, if man had never been, or been ever miserable.