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Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated…
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce, 1689
THE GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. › Section 4 › Proposition 2 › Reason 2: REASON. II.
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REASON. II.
We are to serve God, because Christ has Bought us. Indeed, the Arminian universal Redemption we reject with a just abhorrence. The Satisfaction of our Lord Redeemer, was not Intended by Him, for the Redemption of all mankind; nor was it Intended any further than his Intercession is, which reaches only to the Elect of God. The Virtue and Success of our Lords death depends not wholly on something ⟨p. 10⟩to be done by men which God is not the Doer of▪ otherwise, men would themselves be the Principals in procuring their own Salvation. But one scope of our Lord's Death was even to purchase for us, that Grace, that Faith, that Free-Will, which may qualify us to enjoy the Virtue and Success of it. Certainly Peter was more beholden unto the Merit of Christ for his Redemption, than Judas was for his. Yet the Purchase of Christ wonderfully binds us all to the Service of God.
We are to serve God, because Christ has Bought us. Indeed, the Arminian universal Redemption we reject with a just abhorrence. The Satisfaction of our Lord Redeemer, was not Intended by Him, for the Redemption of all mankind; nor was it Intended any further than his Intercession is, which reaches only to the Elect of God. The Virtue and Success of our Lords death depends not wholly on something ⟨p. 10⟩to be done by men which God is not the Doer of▪ otherwise, men would themselves be the Principals in procuring their own Salvation. But one scope of our Lord's Death was even to purchase for us, that Grace, that Faith, that Free-Will, which may qualifie us to enjoy the Virtue and Success of it. Certainly Peter was more beholden unto the Merit of Christ for his Redemption, than Iudas was for his. Yet the Purchase of Christ wonderfully binds us all to the Service of God.