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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.
There are Some who do arrive to Eternal Blessedness; And they are but Some; Some there are who fall short of Entering into Rest. No body doubts of this.
The Eternal Blessedness is the gift of God; None ever come to Eternal Blessedness, but such as are by the Blessed GOD Himself brought unto it. No body doubts of this.
God from all Eternity does infallibly Fore know whom He will bring unto Eternal Blessedness. It can't be said of any Person in the Eternal Blessedness, That God once did not infallibly Fore know whether this Person should ever come unto it. ⟨p. 7⟩Can any body doubt of this?
Once more; The Eternal Certainty of the Eternal Blessedness to be granted unto these and those Persons, cannot arise from the Persons themselves, who are not yet in Being; It can arise from nothing but God Himself Determining of it; from nothing but the Determination of God.