N01056:13
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.
This is a thing to be set before you, in the most advantageous Terms that I can meet withal. ⟨p. 3⟩And where can any be met withal comparable to those in the Seventeenth among those Famous Articles of the Church of England, which are Subscribed by all the Allowed Clergy of the Nation!
PREDESTINATION to Life, is the Everlasting Purpose of God, whereby before the Foundations of the World were laid, He hath constantly Decreed by His Counsel, secret to us, to deliver from Curse and Damnation, those whom He hath Chosen in Christ Jesus out of Mankind, and to bring them by Christ to Everlasting Salvation, as Vessels made to Honour.
PREDESTINATION to Life, is the Everlasting Purpose of God, whereby before the Foundations of the World were laid, He hath constantly Decreed by His Counsel, secret to us, to deliver from Curse and Damnation, those whom He hath Chosen in Christ Iesus out of Mankind, and to bring them by Christ to Everlasting Salvation, as Vessels made to Honour.
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