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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.
Truly, With Acknowledgements and Admirations of Sovereign Grace; The Grace that shines forth in our Election with a most astonishing Sovereignty! Here, Here, are Thanksgivings of the most Elevated Strain in Christianity. They are, Words to lift up the Horn! they Sound High in our Devotions. A Thankful Christian does Raise His Thanksgivings to the Rarest and Highest ⟨p. 11⟩Notes imaginable, when he comes hereabouts. Tis a Melody peculiarly acceptable to Heaven; Tis the very Beginning of Heaven!
Truly, With Acknowledgments and Admirations of Sovereign Grace; The Grace that shines forth in our Election with a most astonishing Sovereignty! Here, Here, are Thanksgivings of the most Elevated Strain in Christianity. They are, Words to lift up the Horn! they Sound High in our Devotions. A Thankful Christian does Raise His Thanksgivings to the Rarest and Highest ⟨p. 11⟩Notes imaginable, when he comes hereabouts. Tis a Melody peculiarly acceptable to Heaven; Tis the very Beginning of Heaven!
First. Will you not Admire, O Chosen of God, Admire the Absolute Sovereignty of God in His Choosing of you! Vast is the Difference which the Choice of God puts between One Man and Another. But what is the cause of His putting such a Difference? Tis even so, Lord, Merely because it pleases thee. Thus we are advised; Rom. 9.16, 18. It is not of him that Willeth, nor of him that Runneth, but of God that showeth Mercy: He hath Mercy on whom He well. Why has our God Elected One, and Rejected Another? Tis that First Cause of all things, that is the Sole Cause of this; namely, The Will of the Glorious One. The Royal Prerogative of God is wonderfully Exerted in this matter; and He will give none Account of the matter. Is the Fore-sight of our Faith and Obedience, the Cause why God has Chosen us? Then say, We first choose God before He chooses us! Not at all. It was a Text often quoted by Austin, to confute this Fancy;