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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.
I will first, Argue thus. Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever cast out any of those, that came unto Him, in the Days of His Flesh, for any of His Favours! No, He Received All, He Relieved All; Yea, it was cast as a Reproach upon Him; Luk. 15.2. He receiveth Sinners. What was this, but a most obliging Intimation, That our Lord Jesus Christ will still give a Kind Entertainment unto All that come unto Him? Come unto thy SAVIOUR, O Soul, so Blind as to see nothing of the Things which are Invisible; O Soul, so Lame as to be unable to take a step in the Way of Holiness; O Soul, Grievously Vexed with Devils, which throw thee into the Fire of Passion, and into the Water of Company, and make thee Cut and Wound thy self among the Monuments of the Dead. Come unto thy Great Saviour: He will do as Illustrious Things for thee, as any that were done in His Miracles of old.
I will first, Argue thus. Did our Lord Iesus Christ ever cast out any of those, that came unto Him, in the Days of His Flesh, for any of His Favours! No, He Received All, He Relieved All; Yea, it was cast as a Reproach upon Him; Luk. 15.2. He receiveth Sinners. What was this, but a most obliging Intimation, That our Lord Iesus Christ will still give a Kind Entertainment unto All that come unto Him? Come unto thy SAVIOUR, O Soul, so Blind as to see nothing of the Things which are Invisible; O Soul, so Lame as to be unable to take a step in the Way of Holiness; O Soul, Grievously Vexed with Devils, which throw thee into the Fire of Passion, and into the Water of Company, and make thee Cut and Wound thy self among the Monuments of the Dead. Come unto thy Great Saviour: He will do as Illustrious Things for thee, as any that were done in His Miracles of old.
I will go on, and Argue thus. How is it possible, How is it possible, for such infinite Grace as fills the Heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, ever to Reject the Sinner that comes unto Him? There came unto the Lord a Great Sinner, who made a ⟨p. 57⟩