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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.
My Quiver is not yet Empty; The Arguments are not all spent; There is another of them now to be set before you. The Invitation of the Lord Jesus Christ unto Sinners to Come unto Him, is, An Universal Invitation. What is the Gospel, but, An Invitation unto Sinners to Come unto their Saviour? Now, the Commission runs large enough; Mark 16.15. Go into all the World, and Preach the Gospel to every Creature.— There is no Creature among the Children of men, but, tho' never such a Sinful Creature, the most Sinful, and Forlorn Creature in the World, there is this Gospel to be Preached unto him; Sinner, Believe in the Great Saviour, and thou shalt be Saved. The CALL of our Lord Jesus Christ, How Universally it Extends! Look unto me and be ye Saved, ALL ye Ends of the Earth: And, Ho, EVERY ONE come to the Sure Mercies: And, Come unto me ALL ye that Labour and are heavy Laden: And, WHOSOEVER WILL, Let him come. The greatest Sinner upon Earth may lay hold on such an Invitation. Sinner, Why shouldest thou Exclude thy self? The Glorious LORD has not Excluded thee: Thy Name is not Excepted in the Invitation? What will this Arguing prove? This; If Invited, to Come, then surely, not Rejected when thou shalt come.
My Quiver is not yet Empty; The Arguments are not all spent; There is another of them now to be set before you. The Invitation of the Lord Iesus Christ unto Sinners to Come unto Him, is, An Universal Invitation. What is the Gospel, but, An Invitation unto Sinners to Come unto their Saviour? Now, the Commission runs large enough; Mark 16.15. Go into all the World, and Preach the Gospel to every Creature.— There is no Creature among the Children of men, but, tho' never such a Sinful Creature, the most Sinful, and Forlorn Creature in the World, there is this Gospel to be Preached unto him; Sinner, Believe in the Great Saviour, and thou shalt be Saved. The CALL of our Lord Iesus Christ, How Universally it Extends! Look unto me and be ye Saved, ALL ye Ends of the Earth: And, Ho, EVERY ONE come to the Sure Mercies: And, Come unto me ALL ye that Labour and are heavy Laden: And, WHOSOEVER WILL, Let him come. The greatest Sinner upon Earth may lay hold on such an Invitation. Sinner, Why shouldest thou Exclude thy self? The Glorious LORD has not Excluded thee: Thy Name is not Excepted in the Invitation? What will this Arguing prove? This; If Invited, to Come, then surely, not Rejected when thou shalt come.