N01732:96
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when the author attained to the eightieth year of his age. II. A dying testimony to the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of his elect, containing three sermons. III. Believers encouraged to pray from the consideration of Christs interceding for them, and with them. / By Increase Mather, D.D ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719
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USE, II. If Men are Saved by Grace, then they are not Saved by their own works. Thus does the Apostle declare in the Context before us, By Grace are ye saved, through Faith, and that not of your selves, •t is the gift of God, not of works least any man should boast. He says the same again to Timothy, 2 Tim. 1. 0 He hath saved us and called us, not according to our works, •ut according to his own Purpose and Grace. ⟨p. 82⟩That is to say, of His own gracious purpose. And the same again, in his Epistle to Titus, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy •e saveth us If it is by Grace […] not by works; for these two are contradictory, they are […] one wit• another. So does the Apostle argot, Rom. 11. 6. If by Grace, then is it no mo•• of works; if it be of works; then is […] more Grace. How often is it said […] Scripture, We are saved and justified […] Faith, in opposition to a being saved by works? Faith does not Save or Justify […] it is a Grace wrought in us; but in respect of the object of it, the Righteousn••• of Jesus Christ. To be Saved by Faith […] the same with being Saved by the Right• ousness of Christ; for Faith i• the Gra•• that gives us an Interest in that Righteousness. I will mention but two pla•• Arguments, that evince the Truth before us.
USE, II. If Men are Saved by Grace, then they are not Saved by their own works. Thus does the Apostle declare in the Context before us, By Grace are ye saved, through Faith, and that not of your selves, •t is the gift of God, not of works least any man should boast. He says the same again to Timothy,