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Let all Believers from hence learn, how to set a due and full value upon that Salvation, which they profess to expect, and which God hath designed to give them.

Our great and gracious God, the more to bind and oblige the redeemed of the Sons of Men unto himself, hath twisted their Salvation of a double Cord of Love. 1. A privative one, seen in what they are snatched out of, which is termed a being saved from Wrath, Rom. 5. A delivering from Wrath, 1 Thess. 1. 10. An escaping the Damnation of Hell, Mat. 23. 33. A not (so much as) entering into Condemnation, John 5. 24. 2. The other a positive part, The Glory to be revealed; the greatness of which no Tongue can utter, or Heart conceive. That Blessedness or Glory conferred on the elect Angels, and that favour shown them, hath not this privative part of Salvation to greaten it; further then as by way of prevention, in that God ⟨p. 247⟩upheld them from falling into the Merit or Desert of it. Whereas we Men are all become guilty afore God, were actually under Wrath, Children of Wrath even as others, one as well as another, Ephes. 2. And the weight of this he in that Scripture would have them put into the Scale whenever they thought of Salvation; By Grace ye are saved: so as with a Note of Remark it follows, v. 8.—God hath thus doubled the Mercy of Salvation to us, on purpose to make it Salvation indeed; So great Salvation! as the Apostle speaks,