Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

1. This Salvation is a great Salvation in regard of the efficient cause, and that is God the Father: Salvation is ascribed to him as the author, Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he saved us. God is the cause of our Salvation, 1. as he hath chosen us unto Salvation, Eph. 1. 4. As he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world: which Election being of Free grace, we are said to be saved by Grace, Eph. 2 5. 2. As he hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, to purchase Salvation for us, ⟨p. 13⟩Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Gal. 4. 4, 5. When the fullness of the time was come God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them which were under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons. 3. As he revealeth this Salvation unto us by the Preaching of the Gospel, for which end he qualifieth and sends his Ministers upon this Embassage to make known the glad tidings of Salvation. 4. As he confers Salvation actually upon us in our effectual calling, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification and Glorification, all these are from God. Now that must needs be a great Salvation which is effected by the great God, especially if we consider that it is the greatest and most glorious of all his works in the world, and unto which all his other works have some kind of tendency.

1. This Salvation is a great Salvation in regard of the efficient cause, and that is God the Father: Salvation is ascribed to him as the author, Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he saved us. God is the cause of our Salvation, 1. as he hath chosen us unto Salvation, Eph. 1. 4. As he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world: which Election being of Free grace, we are said to be saved by Grace,