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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.
FREE-GRACE at Work For them that are Chosen to GLORY.
Joh VI. 37. All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me.
THE ESSAY which I am going upon, is, To Rescue some Glorious Truths of GOD and of GRACE, from the Abuse, which I See they commonly meet withal. Truths, I am sure, they are, which the Service of our Holy Religion mightily requires us to Explain and Propound in such a manner, as that they may be Serviceable. O Eternal Spirit of Truth, Who Leadest thy Servants into all Truth, Assist and Prosper my Undertaking▪
The Illustrious Doctrine of Predestination, Some that Profess the Belief of it, very Sinfully Pervert it, as if it were a Doctrine Calculated either for the Security, or the Discouragement, of them who should be brought unto Repentance; to make Sinful Men, either Presumptuous or Desperate, ⟨p. 2⟩Whereupon the Doctrine is decried by the Sons of Pride and Profaneness, as if it were an Useless, yea, and an Hurtful Doctrine, and as if it were best of all never at all to meddle with it.