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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.
The Doctrine so Plainly Asserted by the Church of England, is every Day so Unaccountably Decried, and Reproached, by many from whom One could not with any Reason have Expected it, many, who boast themselves the Sons of the Church; that it is high Time for us, to do what we may, to Magnify it and make it Honourable.
Our Lord-Redeemer is now Preaching of the Doctrine. He had a very sorrowful Sight before Him; the Unbelief, the General and the Horrible Unbelief of the People to whom He had been Exhibited. That our Lord might Comfort Himself under the Unsuccessfulness of His Ministry, and that He might preserve others from the Temptation and Stumbling-block therein Laid before them, He Propounds, the Decree of God in His Eternal Predestination.
What else can we have, in any measure to allay the Discomposure of our Minds, when we see the Gospel hitherto so little Crowned with Success in the World! All that the Father gives to me, saith our Lord, shall come to me.
What else can we have, in any measure to allay the Discomposure of our Minds, when we see the Gospel hitherto so little Crown'd with Success in the World! All that the Father gives to me, saith our Lord, shall come to me.