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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.
I apprehended if High Time, that my Country, should be called upon, to watch against the Growth of these Tares, or I had not now so much insisted on it. We will go on to clear our Proposition.
I apprehended if High Time, that my Country, should be call'd upon, to watch against the Growth of these Tares, or I had not now so much insisted on it. We will go on to clear our Proposition.
§. Let it be asked, First; Why shall all that are Chosen by God, and given to Christ, come unto Him?
Why? Because the Honour of God and of Christ, make it requisite, that it should be so; and there is nothing to hinder, or to render why it should not be so. Should they that are Chosen of God, miss of Eternal Blessedness, the Counsels of God would be defeated. Should they that are Given to Christ, miss of Eternal Blessedness, the Fidelity or Ability of Christ would be blemished. The glorious LORD will never come under such Imputations. ⟨p. 33⟩But if men do not Come unto the Lord, they cannot but miss of Eternal Blessedness, Tis a Faithful Saying, and worthy to be trembled at; Joh. 3.36. He that Believeth not the Son, shall not see Life, but the Wrath of God abideth on him.