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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 4: The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON
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 from Sanctifying Grace it differs also, in that God vouchsafes Restraining Grace to Wicked Men, as you ⟨p. 284⟩have heard, but none partake of Sanctifying Grace besides the Children of God and the Remnant according to Election those whom he predestinates them he also calls, that is, them he Sanctifies, as yo• have it in Rom. 8.30. Election & Sanctification are of the self same breadth, Election• the cause of Sanctification, & Sanctification is a sign of Election: Those whom Go• will bring to himself in Glory he causeth a double separation to pass upon them, the one from Eternity, when h• calls them out from the mass of tho• that he leaves to perish in their Sins; an• the other in Time, when those whom he hath set apart for himself by Election, he brings home to himself by Conversion: And therefore whatever measure of Restraining Grace God may a• ford to Wicked Men and Reprobates, ye• Sanctifying Grace is the fruit only of Election, and the portion only of tho• who are Elected. And that is the fir• difference.
and from Sanctifying Grace it differs also, in that God vouchsafes Restraining Grace to Wicked Men, as you ⟨p. 284⟩have heard, but none partake of Sanctifying Grace besides the Children of God and the Remnant according to Election those whom he predestinates them he also calls, that is, them he Sanctifies, as yo• have it in Rom. 8.30. Election & Sanctification are of the self same bredth, Election• the cause of Sanctification, & Sanctificatio is a sign of Election: Those whom Go will bring to himself in Glory he causeth a double separation to pass upo them, the one from Eternity, when h calls them out from the mass of tho that he leaves to perish in their Sins; an the other in Time, when those whom he hath set apart for himself by Election, he brings home to himself by Conversion: And therefore whatever measure of Restraining Grace God may a ford to Wicked Men and Reprobates, ye Sanctifying Grace is the fruit only of Election, and the portion only of tho who are Elected. And that is the fir difference.