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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.
Secondly. The Address with which our Faith must come unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, is to Desire and Expect from Him, such Blessings, as the CHRIST of God bestows upon His People.
We cannot come unto the Lord JESUS ⟨p. 49⟩CHRIST, Except we see our selves Fallen from God; Fallen and Plunged into horrible Circumstances: Except we see our selves utterly unable to Recover our selves out of our Sinful and Woeful Circumstances. In our coming unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, we must have that Anguish on our Minds; Rom. 7.24. O Wretched One that I am? Such, even such must be our Soliloquies; These must be our Thoughts, and our Griefs before the Lord.
We cannot come unto the Lord JESUS ⟨p. 49⟩CHRIST, Except we see our selves Fallen from God; Fallen and Plunged into horrible Circumstances: Except we see our selves utterly unable to Recover our selves out of our Sinful and Woful Circumstances. In our coming unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, we must have that Anguish on our Minds; Rom. 7.24. O Wretched One that I am? Such, even such must be our Soliloquies; These must be our Thoughts, and our Griefs before the Lord.
I have Sinned, I have Sinned! And by Sin I am now become, how very Miserable! I am Deprived of the Favour of GOD, and of the Knowledge of GOD, and of the Image of GOD. O Dreadful Miseries! I am Exposed unto the Dominion of Lust, and unto the Tyranny of Satan, and unto an Everlasting Banishment from God, into Outer Darkness, among the forlorn Vessels of Wrath. O Fearful Miseries! O wretched One that I am! who shall Deliver me!