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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 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⟩Trial of Him; and upon the Trial he Published this Report unto all the World; [1 Tim. 1.14.] The Grace of our Lord, Oh! tis Exceeding Abundant! A Man that has but a Little Grace, yet if there be, Any thing of CHRIST, in him, he will cast out None that come unto him for Help; he will treat all that come unto him, with Compassion, with Benignity; he will Help them all, and Serve them all, and rejoice to do them all the Good that ever he can, All this Grace is but a very Little Picture, and Scarce That; of what is in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is unto His, not so much as a Drop unto the Ocean. It was of old said; Joel 2.13. Turn unto the Lord your God, for He is Gracious and Merciful and of Great Kindness. And we will now say, Come unto the Lord your Saviour, in whom it is that God becomes your God, for He is a Gracious and a Merciful Saviour; None can utter the Greatness of His Kindness!
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 Iesus Christ, ever to Reject the Sinner that comes unto Him? There came unto the Lord a Great Sinner, who made a ⟨p. 57⟩Trial of Him; and upon the Trial he Published this Report unto all the World; [1 Tim. 1.14.] The Grace of our Lord, Oh! tis Exceeding Abundant! A Man that has but a Little Grace, yet if there be, Any thing of CHRIST, in him, he will cast out None that come unto him for Help; he will treat all that come unto him, with Compassion, with Benignity; he will Help them all, and Serve them all, and rejoyce to do them all the Good that ever he can, All this Grace is but a very Little Picture, and Scarce That; of what is in our Lord Iesus Christ. It is unto His, not so much as a Drop unto the Ocean. It was of old said;