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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.
Well; But, my Hearers, Let us again make a Pause. We have before us a Truth, with which we are Singularly Illuminated: You shall see, what Incomparable Good, what Honey of the Rock, will presently be Dropping from it.
§. We will Enquire, first; Whether a Man may come to know, that he is from all Eternity in the Covenant of Redemption given by God the Father to our Lord-Redeemer?
Yes; He may. And you that are now before the Lord, may immediately come to know, That God has Given you unto the Lord Jesus Christ. You may know it by this Unquestionable Symptom. Do you give your selves unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST? One whom the Father had given to our Lord, came to know it, by his being Able to Say; 2 Tim. 1.12. I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have Committed unto Him. I will Say; Do you know, that you have so Believed the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as to Commit your selves unto Him? The Lord-Redeemer says, My Son, Give me thy Heart. Is this now your Answer to the Lord-Redeemer? Lord, I would fain Give thee my Heart! ⟨p. 20⟩Oh! Give me the Grace to give thee my Heart, and my All! Distressed Soul; Dost thou Give up thy self unto the Conduct of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as thy Shepherd, thy Great Shepherd, and thy Good Shepherd, wishing to be led by Him in the Paths of Righteousness? Dost thou Give up thy self unto Him, with that Supplication, that Expectation; Lord, I am thine; Save me! It is then beyond all Question, That God from all Eternity has Given thee to thy Lord-Redeemer: Thy Name is in the List of those, for whom He did become a Lord-Redeemer.
Yes; He may. And you that are now before the Lord, may immediately come to know, That God has Given you unto the Lord Jesus Christ. You may know it by this Unquestionable Symptom. Do you give your selves unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST? One whom the Father had given to our Lord, came to know it, by his being Able to Say;