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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
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This will presently be determined, by but knowing, What it is to come unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Who can Interpret it so well, as our LORD Himself? His interpretation, which is infinitely to be Relied upon, was, That a Coming ⟨p. 46⟩to Him, is a Belief in Him. As it was said, He that cometh to God must believe; so we may say, To Believe, is to Come unto our Lord. Is it indeed so? Then see what will come of it: We are told by Truth it self, Mark 16.16. He that Believeth shall be Saved; but he that Believeth not, shall he Damned.
This will presently be determined, by but knowing, What it is to come unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Who can Interpret it so well, as our LORD Himself? His interpretation, which is infinitely to be Rely'd upon, was, That a Coming ⟨p. 46⟩to Him, is a Belief in Him. As it was said, He that cometh to God must believe; so we may say, To Believe, is to Come unto our Lord. Is it indeed so? Then see what will come of it: We are told by Truth it self, Mark 16.16. He that Believeth shall be Saved; but he that Believeth not, shall he Damned.
We have all the Reason imaginable to proceed upon this Action. We will briefly Describe the Action, of, Coming unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST. And we will Beseech the God of all Grace, to Dispose and Assist us all, unto the Doing of this Action, while we are Hearing of it. O Spirit of Grace, come down upon us, with thy Gracious Influences!