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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.
Tis plainly Asserted, That every one, who is given to the Lord Jesus Christ by God the Father, shall at one Time or other by Faith come unto Him. Tis plainly Asserted, That these Persons are given to the Lord Jesus Christ, before they do by Faith come unto Him. Hence it follows, That the giving of any to the Lord Jesus Christ by God the Father, is not His Bringing them to Believe on Him. If it be Before their Believing, we shall ⟨p. 5⟩soon find it to be, as other of the Divine Oracles have told us, From all Eternity.
This then is the DOCTRINE to be insisted on.
There are Some, whom God the Father, has from all Eternity given unto our Lord-Redeemer, to be brought by Him unto Eternal Blessedness; and all that are so Given unto our Lord, shall in Time come unto Him.
Do not imagine, That I am going to Entertain you with Unprofitable Speculations. No; Your Entertainment shall be a Great Mystery of Godliness; I shall use my best contrivance, that every Stroke of it may be most sensibly Subservient unto the Designs of Godliness.