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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.
Nor is there yet an End of our Arguments. I will not Reason with unprofitable Talk, nor, I hope, with Speeches that will do no Good. Let no man be such a Prodigy of Impiety and Ingratitude, ⟨p. 60⟩as to Abound in Sin the more, on the pretence that Grace may Abound. But have you not heard of such an amazing thing, as that? Rom. 5.20. Where Sin abounded, Grace did much more Abound. The Greater the Sinner that comes unto the Lord Jesus Christ, the more will the Lord and His Grace, be Glorified in the Salvation of such a Sinner. When a Great Sinner comes to be Saved, our Lord has a marvellous opportunity, to accomplish the Great Intent upon which any Sinner is ever Saved. The Glory, the radiant Glory of the Lord, will be displayed in such a Salvation, more than on any other Occasion whatsoever. It must be a Great Salvation indeed▪ that shall help such a Sinner! It is pleaded; Ps. 25.11. For thy Names sake, O Lord, Pardon mine Iniquity; for it is Great. A Great Sinner may make this plea; Lord, It will be seen, that thy Name is Great, if so Great a Sinner as I, may be Saved from all my Iniquity! Men and Angels will upon the Salvation of such a Sinner conspire in Everlasting Doxologies to the Glorious LORD. Oh! the Glory of that Grace, that would give a Glorious CHRIST for such a Sinner! Oh! the Glory of that Blood, that would wash away all the Guilt of such a Sinner! Oh! the Glory of that Spirit, who could bring to Rights, all that was amiss in the Soul of such a Sinner! The prospect of such a Glory accruing to the Lord, will be an Argument, for the Salvation of the Greatest Sinner, that shall come unto Him to be ⟨p. 61⟩Saved. And, Sinner, I am sure, thou mayest make this an Argument for thee, in thy Supplications to the Lord: Lord! Where can thy Glorious Grace find a fitter Object for its Precious and Eternal Triumphs, than in so great a Sinner!
Nor is there yet an End of our Arguments. I will not Reason with unprofitable Talk, nor, I hope, with Speeches that will do no Good. Let no man be such a Prodigy of Impiety and Ingratitude, ⟨p. 60⟩