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I, even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Now though this Doctrine of free Grace hath deserved well of all, as being the best tenure of our present Enjoyment, and the best prop for our future hopes; yet hath it in all Ages found bitter Enemies, and of old, like the procurer of it, been Crucified between two Thieves, the Gnostics and the Pelagian Heretics: the Pelagians deprive it of its freedom, and enslave it to the will of Man, affirming, That God therefore pardons and saves some, because they will by the power of their own Nature work Faith in themselves; whereas the truth is, therefore God works Faith in them, because he will pardon and save them. Thus they make free Grace a Hand-maid to wait upon the motions of free Will. Now this is greatly derogatory to free Grace, for Men to bottom their Faith and Pardon upon the Arbitrariness of free Will, and not upon the Almighty Sovereign Grace of God, that first moves the Will to believe, and then pardons it upon believing.

Now though this Doctrine of free Grace hath deserved well of all, as being the best tenure of our present Enjoyment, and the best prop for our future hopes; yet hath it in all Ages found bitter Enemies, and of old, like the procurer of it, been Crucified between two Thieves, the Gnosticks and the Pelagian Hereticks: the Pelagians deprive it of its freedom, and enslave it to the will of Man, affirming, That God therefore pardons and saves some, because they will by the power of their own Nature work Faith in themselves; whereas the truth is, therefore God works Faith in them, because he will pardon and save them. Thus they make free Grace a Hand-maid to wait upon the motions of free Will. Now this is greatly derogatory to free Grace, for Men to bottom their Faith and Pardon upon the Arbitrariness of free Will, and not upon the Almighty Soveraign Grace of God, that first moves the Will to believe, and then pardons it upon believing.