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Free-grace, maintained & improved. Or, The general offer of the Gospel, managed with considerations…
Free-grace, maintained & improved. Or, The general offer of the Gospel, managed with considerations of the great things done by special grace, in the election and redemption and vocation of those who embrace that offer. And the illustrious doctrines of divine predestination and humane impotency, rescued from the abuses, which they too frequently meet withal; and rendered (as they are) highly useful to the designs of practical piety. : In two brief discourses; published at the desire of some, who have been greatly apprehensive of growing occasions for such treatises.
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1706
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.
Joh. VI. 37. Him that Cometh to Me I will in no Wise cast out.
AND is this Thy Voice, O our Lord REDEEMER? It is verily so. And the sweetest voice that ever was heard among the Sinful Children of Men. Why do not we Lift up our Voice, and weep; and with a weeping Faith give that Echo to it; Lord, I come unto thee: I will in no wise cast off thy Favour!
That short and sweet Sentence, which we are now taking from the Gracious Lips of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, has been Employed by His Almighty Spirit, for the Conversion of many Thousands. There are Holy Myriads, who have upon a Quickening from this very Word, come unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and found Him as Good as His Word. There are Bright ⟨p. 44⟩Constellations of Saints in the Heavenly World, who were, by this very Call brought Home unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and at last into that World. Oh! that this Faithful Saying may find the same worthy Acceptation with you, My Hearers, which it has had with Multitudes that have gone before you!
That short and sweet Sentence, which we are now taking from the Gracious Lips of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, has been Employ'd by His Almighty Spirit, for the Conversion of many Thousands. There are Holy Myriads, who have upon a Quickening from this very Word, come unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and found Him as Good as His Word. There are Bright ⟨p. 44⟩Constellations of Saints in the Heavenly World, who were, by this very Call brought Home unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and at last into that World. Oh! that this Faithful Saying may find the same worthy Acceptation with you, My Hearers, which it has had with Multitudes that have gone before you!