The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

God's special Love and Election is not from any Man's willing, or running; it riseth not from Natural Powers improved, not from his Desires, Good Deeds, or Good Inclinations,¹ or from the fore-sight of his Faith and Obedience; but from and of God's mere Mercy, Sovereign Grace and Favour: The Truth is,² to deny God to have the power of his own Free Act in dispensing his own Sovereign Bounty, is to Eclipse his Glory, and to render him to have less Sovereign Power than that which he hath given, and alloweth to Mankind: May not a Man show his Favour and Goodness in redeeming a few Captives, out of a Multitude, who wilfully brought themselves into Bondage, but he must redeem them all, or be unjust? Or cannot a Man give a bountiful Gift to One or Two poor Men in a Parish, but he must bestow like Bounty to all the Poor in the said Parish? Or, can't a King contrive and enter into a Covenant of Peace for a few Rebels that have (with a Multitude of others) taken up Arms against him, but he must be charged with Injustice, ⟨p. 18⟩[…] ⟨p. 19⟩[…] ⟨p. 20⟩because he did not extend like Favour in the said Covenant to them all; sure, no Man, in his right Senses, will deny him this Liberty: And now, Shall not GOD have like power to dispense his Sovereign Grace to whom he pleaseth, who is said to do all things according to the pleasure of his own Will, and eternal purpose in Jesus Christ?

God's special Love and Election is not from any Man's willing, or running; it riseth not from Natural Powers emproved, not from his Desires, Good Deeds, or Good Inclinations,¹ or from the fore-sight of his Faith and Obedience; but from and of God's meer Mercy, Sovereign Grace and Favour: The Truth is,² to deny God to have the power of his own Free Act in dispensing his own Sovereign Bounty, is to Eclipse his Glory, and to render him to have less Sovereign Power than that which he hath given, and alloweth to Mankind: May not a Man shew his Favour and Goodness in redeeming a few Captives, out of a Multitude, who wilfully brought themselves into Bondage, but he must redeem them all, or be unjust? Or cannot a Man give a bountiful Gift to One or Two poor Men in a Parish, but he must bestow like Bounty to all the Poor in the said Parish? Or, can't a King contrive and enter into a Covenant of Peace for a few Rebels that have (with a Multitude of others) taken up Arms against him, but he must be charged with Injustice,