The Occasion of the Discourse concerning the Sovereign Grace of God in the Salvation of the Elect, was, a Letter which a Worthy Minister, who lives in a Town remote from Boston sent to me, proposing that I would Preach and Publish some Meditations, on Eph. 2. 8. I was the more willing to comply with his desire, that so • who am Expecting Death every day (and for that reason call these Sermons, my dying Testimony) may leave something with that dear Flock (among whom I have been Labouring for the space of Eight and Fifty Years) which may help to confirm them after my Decease, in those Gospel Truths, ⟨p. iii⟩in opposition, not only to the Errors of Pelagius, Papists, and Socinians, but of Arminians, & Semi-Arminians; such as Amyrald, Testardus, Camero, Tilenus, (not to mention any New Methodists of our own Nation) whose Writings are known to Learned Men, and well refuted by the very Learned Peter Du Moulin. These Discourses are not Published for the Instruction of great Scholars, but for the Confirmation and Establishment of the ordinary sort of Readers. And therefore they are not handled in a Polemic or Scholastic way, but in a Plain, Practical, and Scriptural Method.
The Occasion of the Discourse concerning the Sovereign Grace of God in the Salvation of the Elect, was, a Letter which a Worthy Minister, who lives in a Town remote from Boston sent to me, proposing that I would Preach and Publish some Meditations, on Eph. 2. 8. I was the more willing to comply with his desire, that so • who am Expecting Death every day (and for that reason call these Sermons, my dying Testimony) may leave something with that dear Flock (among whom I have been Labouring for the space of Eight and Fifty Years) which may help to confirm them after my Decease, in those Gospel Truths, ⟨p. iii⟩in opposition, not only to the Errors of Pelagius, Papists, and Socinians, but of Arminians, & Semi-Arminians; such as Amyrald, Testardus, Camero, Tilenus, (not to mention any New Methodists of our own Nation) whose Writings are known to Learned Men, and well refuted by the very Learned Peter Du Moulin. These Discourses are not Published for the Instruction of great Scholars, but for the Confirmation and Establishment of the ordinary sort of Readers. And therefore they are not handled in a Polemick or Scholastick way, but in a Plain, Practical, and Scriptural Method.
