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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
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Secondly,1 The infinite Grace of God in giving Christ to us, and his Blood for us, through which we have pardon merited, is absolutely free, and falls not under any merit, either of ours, or of his.
Secondly,1 The infinite Grace of God in giving Christ to us, and his Bloud for us, through which we have pardon merited, is absolutely free, and falls not under any merit, either of ours, or of his.
- 1God's Grace in giving of Christ to us, is free.
First, It falls not under any Merit of ours; for certainly, could we have merited Christ out of Heaven, we might as well have merited Heaven without Christ. When God in his infinite Wisdom foresaw how we would reject and despise his Son; first spill his Blood, and then trample upon it, he did not account this Demeanour of ours to be meritorious of so great a gift.
First, It falls not under any Merit of ours; for certainly, could we have merited Christ out of Heaven, we might as well have merited Heaven without Christ. When God in his infinite Wisdom foresaw how we would reject and despise his Son; first spill his Bloud, and then trample upon it, he did not account this Demeanour of ours to be meritorious of so great a gift.
Secondly, Which is yet more to the Glory of God's free Grace, He bestowed Christ upon us, not only without any merit of ours, but without any merit of his also. It is free Grace that Pardons, that Sanctifies, that saves us; yet all this Christ purchased for us by a full price. God will have a price paid down for all other things of a less value, that so he might hereby set forth his own Bounty in parting with his own Son for us without price.