A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Name: A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
Author: Ezekiel Hopkins

A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...

Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693

[13], 314, [2], 82 p. · 77k words · Wing H2735 · ESTC R37910

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Sermon 5: OF PARDON AND Forgiveness of SIN, &c.

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.

[ Earlier:384–399 of 462

:384p. 16

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.

:385p. 16–17

¹Thirdly, Pardon and Grace obtained through the Blood of Christ, in respect of any Merit of ours, is altogether free and undeserved. We cannot of our selves scarce so much as ask forgiveness, much less therefore can we do any thing that may deserve it. All that we can do, is either sinful, or holy; if what we do be sinful, it only increaseth our Debts: If it be holy, it must proceed from God's free Grace, that enables us to do it; and certainly it is free Grace to pardon us upon the doing of that, which free Grace only enables us to do. Far be it from us to affirm, as the Papists ⟨p. 17⟩do, that good Works are meritorious of pardon, what are our Prayers, our Sighs, our Tears? yea, what are our Lives and our Blood it self, should we shed it for Christ? All this cannot make one blot in God's Remembrance-Book: Yea, it were fitter and more becoming the infinite Bounty of God to give Pardon and Heaven freely, than to set them to sale for such inconsiderable things as these are.

¹Thirdly, Pardon and Grace obtained through the Bloud of Christ, in respect of any Merit of ours, is altogether free and undeserved. We cannot of our selves scarce so much as ask forgiveness, much less therefore can we do any thing that may deserve it. All that we can do, is either sinful, or holy; if what we do be sinful, it only encreaseth our Debts: If it be holy, it must proceed from God's free Grace, that enables us to do it; and certainly it is free Grace to pardon us upon the doing of that, which free Grace only enables us to do. Far be it from us to affirm, as the Papists

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