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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.
What? May we be so Selfish, as to aim at our own Salvation in coming to our Lord Jesus Christ? Yes; Tis a Laudable Selfishness. A Salvation▪ that rescues a Sinner from his Enmity to GOD; A Salvation, that restores a Sinner to the Enjoyment of GOD; A Salvation▪ whereby GOD shall have Revenues of Eternal Glory from the Sinner: Oh, be not Afraid of Seeking such a Salvation: It will be ⟨p. 50⟩no Faulty Self-seeking, you may be Satisfied.
What? May we be so Selfish, as to aim at our own Salvation in coming to our Lord Jesus Christ? Yes; Tis a Laudable Selfishness. A Salvation▪ that rescues a Sinner from his Enmity to GOD; A Salvation, that restores a Sinner to the Enjoyment of GOD; A Salvation▪ whereby GOD shall have Revenues of Eternal Glory from the Sinner: Oh, be not Afraid of Seeking such a Salvation: It will be ⟨p. 50⟩no Faulty Self-seeking, you may be Satisfyed.
But then, What are the Blessings to be sought from our Saviour, in His Great Salvation?
When we come unto our Lord JESUS CHRIST, He puts this Demand unto us; Matt. 1•.32. What will ye that I shall do unto you? We must render a fit Answer to this Demand. Our Answer must be; to this Purpose.