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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
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.
CHAP. XVI. Showing that all must be resolved into Gods purpose.
CHAP. XVI. Shewing that all must be resolved into Gods purpose.
1Let us ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of Gods Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us makes us worthy. Proud men are apt to assume and arrogate too much to themselves in being sharers with God. While many cry out of Church-sacrilege, they are in the mean time guilty of a far greater sacrilege, in robbing God of his glory, while they go to set the Crown of Salvation upon their own head: but we must resolve all into Gods purpose. The Signs of salvation are in the Saints, but the Cause of salvation is in God. If it be Gods purpose that saves, then,
1LEt us ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of Gods Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by chusing us makes us worthy. Proud men are apt to assume and arrogate too much to themselves in being sharers with God. While many cry out of Church-sacriledge, they are in the mean time guilty of a far greater sacriledge, in robbing God of his glory, while they go to set the Crown of Salvation upon their own head: but we must resolve all into Gods purpose. The Signs of salvation are in the Saints, but the Cause of salvation is in God. If it be Gods purpose that saves, then,
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