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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.
Methinks▪ The first of them should be, To Wonder at the Goodness of God unto us, and even unto us who are Sinners of the Gentiles, that we are admitted into the Knowledge of the most Glorious Transaction that ever was. We have an Admission to an Acquaintance, with that Secret and Glorious Transaction, The Covenant of Redemption. We have Learnt the very Words, as I may say, of the Consultation that Passed between God the Father and the Son, at the Council-Table of Heaven, when there was none else present, but that Principal Secretary of State, the Holy Spirit of God, who has Revealed it. The Fifty Third Chapter of Isaiah, has a Copy of them. Oh! Wondrous Condescension of Him, who Humbles Himself to behold the things that are done in Heaven, to tell us, pitiful Worms upon the Earth, what He Himself did in Heaven from all Eternity! Will any Protestant call that, A Fiction, which is indeed the very Marrow and Substance of the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God; the very Fountain of all our Eternal Blessedness! O Sinful Ingratitude, unto Him, that has even Lifted us up to Heaven, by communicating unto us, these Deep things of the Spirit of God!
Methinks▪ The first of them should be, To Wonder at the Goodness of God unto us, and even unto us who are Sinners of the Gentiles, that we are admitted into the Knowledge of the most Glorious Transaction that ever was. We have an Admission to an Acquaintance, with that Secret and Glorious Transaction, The Covenant of Redemption. We have Learnt the very Words, as I may say, of the Consultation that Passed between God the Father and the Son, at the Council-Table of Heaven, when there was none else present, but that Principal Secretary of State, the Holy Spirit of God, who has Revealed it. The Fifty Third Chapter of Isaiah, has a Copy of them. Oh! Wondrous Condescension of Him, who Humbles Himself to behold the things that are done in Heaven, to tell us, pittiful Worms upon the Earth, what He Himself did in Heaven from all Eternity! Will any Protestant call that, A Fiction, which is indeed the very Marrow and Substance of the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God; the very Fountain of all our Eternal Blessedness! O Sinful Ingratitude, unto Him, that has even Lifted us up to Heaven, by communicating unto us, these Deep things of the Spirit of God!