A69536:52
The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality
London : s.n., 1676
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.
10. Therefore as God is called [All in All] so Christ is called [All in all,] Col. 3. 11. to Believers, as being the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
11. Therefore they that would bring men to the holy and felicitating Love of God, must preach Jesus Christ and his Grace to them, as the means, and bring them to believe in him, and to take it for their Wisdom to know Christ crucified, and glorified, and to learn of him, and obey him, and trust in him, and daily to use him as their Mediator for access to God, acceptance with him, and communication from him.
12. To preach up the blessedness of Saints and excellency of holiness, without teaching men how to attain it by Christ, is but to commend health to the sick, without directing them to the Physician and the Remedies: And to hear of a Sanctity and Felicity not attainable, is to be tormented by despair: And to think to obtain it by our works or endeavours, without a Mediator and his Grace (or by any other Mediator than Christ,) is the way to lose it by false presumption, and neglect of the necessary means: It being Christ that is made of God to us, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption.