N01056:169
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.
It has always been beyond all Dispute, with all that are not with Madness in their Hearts going down unto the Dead; That, Psal. 73.28. It is Good for me to Draw near unto God. Certainly, It will be Good for you to come unto a Great SAVIOUR. But are you Unresolved, Whether you should come into a Friendship and a Fellowship with the Blessed GOD? Unresolved, Whether you should become the Sons and the Daughters of the Almighty? Unresolved, Whether you should Accept a claim to all the very Great and Precious Promises of the New Covenant? Oh! how can you continue so? Tis to continue Unresolved, Whether you had not best lie under the Fearful Curse of God, and have the Dreadful Wrath of God abiding on ⟨p. 64⟩you? But is this possible? Can you continue Unresolved, Whether you shall Choose your Portion with Unbelievers, and Weep and Wail in the Outer Darkness of an Eternal Banishment from the Blissful Mansions of the Righteous? Whether you shall Choose to do the part of Devils, and have a part with Devils, and be held in the Chains of Endless Darkness laid upon you? O unaccountable Indifferency! O inexcusable Stupidity!
It has always been beyond all Dispute, with all that are not with Madness in their Hearts going down unto the Dead; That, Psal. 73.28. It is Good for me to Draw near unto God. Certainly, It will be Good for you to come unto a Great SAVIOUR. But are you Unresolved, Whether you should come into a Friendship and a Fellowship with the Blessed GOD? Unresolved, Whether you should become the Sons and the Daughters of the Almighty? Unresolved, Whether you should Accept a claim to all the very Great and Precious Promises of the New Covenant? Oh! how can you continue so? Tis to continue Unresolved, Whether you had not best ly under the Fearful Curse of God, and have the Dreadful Wrath of God abiding on ⟨p. 64⟩you? But is this possible? Can you continue Unresolved, Whether you shall Chuse your Portion with Unbelievers, and Weep and Wail in the Outer Darkness of an Eternal Banishment from the Blissful Mansions of the Righteous? Whether you shall Chuse to do the part of Devils, and have a part with Devils, and be held in the Chains of Endless Darkness laid upon you? O unaccountable Indifferency! O inexcusable Stupidity!