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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.
The Action of a True FAITH, has more than one Resemblance, in the Oracles of God. It is Resembled unto the Action of the Eye, and called, A Looking to the Lord; unto the Action of the Ear, and called, An Hearing, that the Soul may Live; unto the Action of the Mouth, and called, A Feeding on the Lord; And unto the Action of the Hand, for which it is called, A Receiving of Him. Consider, O Soul, consider what Action of the Soul, can answer to every one of these Terms; Fall into such a Full Action; and ⟨p. 47⟩Lift up thy Cry unto thy Saviour; O Glorious Lord; I Desire to See thy Beauties; I desire to Hear thy Counsels; I desire to Feed and Feast on thine Excellencies; And I desire to Take all thy Benefits!
The Action of a True FAITH, has more than one Resemblance, in the Oracles of God. It is Resembled unto the Action of the Eye, and called, A Looking to the Lord; unto the Action of the Ear, and called, An Hearing, that the Soul may Live; unto the Action of the Mouth, and called, A Feeding on the Lord; And unto the Action of the Hand, for which it is called, A Receiving of Him. Consider, O Soul, consider what Action of the Soul, can answer to every one of these Terms; Fall into such a Full Action; and ⟨p. 47⟩Lift up thy Cry unto thy Saviour; O Glorious Lord; I Desire to See thy Beauties; I desire to Hear thy Counsils; I desire to Feed and Feast on thine Excellencies; And I desire to Take all thy Benefits!
But now, the Foot also must afford an Action, by which a Saving FAITH shall be set forth unto us. Tis a Coming to the Lord JESUS CHRIST. And many Motions of the Soul are contained in it. Yea, Awake my whole Soul, and All that is within me, to do this Noble Action!