A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Above other Men. There's a common and inferior sort of Grace which is made known to all the World. The whole Earth is full of his Goodness, but this Grace that bringeth Salvation, that's peculiar to the Elect, to a few poor base Creatures in themselves, a little handful whom God hath chosen out of the World: Joh. 14.22. How is it that thou wouldst manifest thy self unto us, and not unto the World? Free Grace doth pick and choose, and how? it chooseth out things that are in themselves of no account. Look, as when God chose a Sacrifice for himself, the Lion was not offered, but the Lamb and the Dove; so God hath chosen, not those that are accounted Gods, but a few despicable Creatures. Free Grace many times chooseth the worst, that all the Glory might be of God. If a Man might choose Trees for Building, he would not choose crooked ones, but those that are straight and fittest for his use and purpose: But when God comes to look among the Sons of ⟨p. 10⟩Men, many times he chooseth the most crabbed Pieces, and calls them with a holy Calling, according to the purpose of his Grace. It is a wonder sometimes to see how Grace makes the difference between two Persons involved in the same Guilt; Justice can make no Separation: when Men are in a like Case, they must look for the same Judgment; but Grace makes a great Separation. Many of God's Elect are as deep in Sin, as those now in Hell; yet God makes a difference. Both the good and bad Thief were involved in the same Condemnation, yet one is taken into Paradise, and the other went unto his own place. Thus praise and glorify Grace.

2. Above other Men. There's a common and inferior sort of Grace which is made known to all the World. The whole Earth is full of his Goodness, but this Grace that bringeth Salvation, that's peculiar to the Elect, to a few poor base Creatures in themselves, a little handful whom God hath chosen out of the World: Joh. 14.22. How is it that thou wouldst manifest thy self unto us, and not unto the World? Free Grace doth pick and choose, and how? it chooseth out things that are in themselves of no account. Look, as when God chose a Sacrifice for himself, the Lion was not offered, but the Lamb and the Dove; so God hath chosen, not those that are accounted Gods, but a few despicable Creatures. Free Grace many times chuseth the worst, that all the Glory might be of God. If a Man might chuse Trees for Building, he would not chuse crooked ones, but those that are straight and fittest for his use and purpose: But when God comes to look among the Sons of