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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.
Does it not Look like Double Dealing? What Reality can there be, in the Lords bidding all men to come unto Him, when He knows He will not help them all to do it. If the Lord has not Really purposed, that He will Enable any but His Elect Effectually to come unto Him, what Sincerity can there be in His calling them to come?
Sinner, Let none of these Cavils retard thy Coming to thy Saviour. It's a mere piece of Confusion to insist upon them. 'Tis Enough, That He calls Thee to Come, and He will not cost thee out, if thou Come. Do but Come, and thou shalt find He has been most Sincere in His Call unto thee.
Sinner, Let none of these Cavils retard thy Coming to thy Saviour. It's a meer piece of Confusion to insist upon them. 'Tis Enough, That He calls Thee to Come, and He will not cost thee out, if thou Come. Do but Come, and thou shalt find He has been most Sincere in His Call unto thee.
'Tis true; The Lord knows, that Reprobates will not Come unto Him; And, He knows, that He will ⟨p. 69⟩not give them a Will to Come. Yet He Delude no man, when He says to all men, Him that comes unto […] I will in no wise cast out. Where is the Reprobate, who can say, That the Lord has dealt falsely with him? It must be a man, who knows himself to be a Reprobate. This no man Living does. O man, As 'tis thy Duty to come unto thy Saviour, so 'tis thy Duty to reckon it probable, that thou art one whom the Lord intends to bring unto thy Saviour. To doom thy self a Reprobate, would be a Criminal Impiety: Oh! Do it not!
'Tis true; The Lord knows, that Reprobates will not Come unto Him; And, He knows, that He will ⟨p. 69⟩