fhould WALK Eph. ii, 10. IN THEM. HEART aright, &c. and REFUSED TO WALK in his law. But as for me, I WILL WALK in mine integrity. Pfa. lxxviii, 7. 10.— xxvi, 11. 1. God hath SAVED US, and called us with an holy CALLING: not according to our works, but according to his own purpofe and GRACE, which was GIVEN US IN CHRIST before the world began. 2 Tim. i, 9. 1. I will give them a heart to KNOw me, that I am the Lord. Jer. xxiv 7. 1. I will PUT MY FEAR in their hearts, Jer. xxxii, 40. 1. The Lord thy God will CIRCUMCISE THINE heart. Deut. xxx, vi. 1. I WILL PUT MY LAW in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. Jer. xxxi, 33. 1. We LOVE him, BECAUSE he first loved us. 1 John iv, 19. 1. By GRACE ye SAVED, thro' FAITH 2. The grace of God, that bringeth SALVATION, hath appeared unto all men, teaching us, that we SHOULD LIVE foberly, &c. -Give DILIGENCE make your CALLING fure. to How fhall we escape, if we NEGLECT fo great SALVATION? Titus ii, 11 12.-2 Pet. 1, 10.-Heb. ii, 3. 2. Then fhall we KNOW, IF WE FOLLOW on to know the Lord. Hofea, vi, 3. 2. They fhall not find me, &c. for that they did not CHUSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD. Prov. i, 29. 2. CIRCUMCISE therefore the foreskin of YOUR heart. Deut. x, 16. 2. Let every man BE SWIFT TO HEAR, &c. RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS the engrafted wORD, which is able to SAVE your fouls. James i, xix, 21. - Thy word HAVE I HID in my heart. Pf. cxix, 11. 2.. The Father LOVETH you, BECAUSE YE have believed. John xvi, 27. are and that 2. BELIEVE &c. and thou shalt be SAVED. Acts xiv. that not of yourfeves: it | xvi 31.-Receive not the is the GIFT of God. Eph. GRACE of God IN VAIN. 2 Cor. vi. 1. LOOKING DILIGENTLY left any man fail of [or be wanting to] the GRACE of God. Heb. xii, 15. INHERIT THE KINGDOM, &c. for I was hungry, and YE GAVE ME MEAT, &c. Mat. xxv. 34. 2. Charge them, &c. to DO GOOD, &c. that they may lay hold on ETERNAL LIFE. I Tim. vi. 17, &c. 2. Who is WISE, and he fhall understand thefe things? PRUDENT and he fhall know them? Hofea xiv. 9. None of the WICKED fhall understand, but the WISE fhall understand. Dan. xii. 10. If I am not mistaken, tha balance of the preceding fcriptures fhows, that Pharifaifm and Antinomianifm are equally unfcriptural; the harmonious oppofition of thofe paffages evincing: (1) That our free will is SUBORDINATELY a worker with God's free grace in every thing but a proper atonement for fin, and the firft implanting of the light, which enlightens every man that comes into the world: fuch an atonement having been fully completed by Chrift's Blood, and fuch an implanting being entirely performed by his Spirit: (2) That Honeftus is moft dreadfully mistaken, when he makes next to nothing of FREE GRACE and her works: (3) That Zelotes obtrudes a moft dangerous paradox upon the fimple, when he preaches FINISHED falvation in the Crifpian fenfe of the word. And (4) that St. Paul fpeaks as the oracles of God, when he fays, GoD WORKETH in you, &c. THEREFORE WORK YE OUT your Ton falvation. SECT. SECTION IX. Difplaying the most wonderful work of FREE-GRACE, the GENERAL redemption of the LOST WORLD of the UNGODLY by Jefus Chrift: And the most aftonifing work of FREE WILL, the OBSTINATE neglect of that redemption, by those who do defpite to the Spirit of grace. ONESTUS has fuch high thoughts of his up Hngines and good works, that he fometimes doubts if he is a loft finner by nature, and if the vir tue of Chrift's blood is abfolutely neceffary to his juftification. And the mind of Zelotes is fo full of abfolute election and reprobating partiality, that he thinks, the facrifice of Christ was confined to the little part of mankind, which he calls "The church, the pleasant children, Ifrael, Jacob, Ephraim, God's people, the elect, the little flock, &c." Thofe happy fouls, if you believe him, are loved with an everlaíting love, and all the rest of mankind are hated with an everlasting hate. Chrift never bled, never died for thele. God purposedly let them fall in the firft Adam, and abfolutely denied them all interest in Chrift the fecond Adam, that they might neceffarily be wicked, and infallibly be damned, to illuftrate his glory by their deftruction." To rectify thofe mistakes-to fhow Honeftus, that ALL MEN without exception are fo wicked by nature, as to stand in need of Chrift's atoning blood; and to convince Zelotes, that Chrift was fo good as to fhed it for ALL MEN without exception; I throw into my fcales fome of the weights ftamped with GENERAL REDEMPTION: Ifay fume, because others have already been produced in the third Section.. that THE WORLD thro' clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the VINEYARD him MIGHT BE SAVED [upon gofpel terms.] John 11. 16, 17-This is in OF THE LORD is the houfe of deed the Chrift, the SA-Ifrael, and the men of VIOUR OF THE WORLD. John iv. 42. We have feen, and do testify, that the Father fent the Son to be the SAVIOUR OF THE ALL WORLD. 1 John iv. 14.Behold I bring you GOOD TIDINGS of great joy, which shall be To PEOPLE; for unto you is BORN, &c. A SAVIOUR, who is Chrift, the Lord. Luke ii. 10, II. 1. Chrift is our peace, who hath made BOTH [Jews and Gentiles] one, &c. that he might [on his part] reconcile BOTH unto God by the Crofs. Eph. ii. 14, 16. Now Jews and Gentiles are equivalent to THE WORLD.] - God was in Chrift reconciling THE WORLD unto himfelf, not imputing their trefpaffes unto them [when they believe.] 2 Cor. v. 10. 1. It pleafed the FATHER, &c. having MADE PEACE by the blood of his crofs, by him to reconcile ALL THINGS unto himself, by him, I fay, whether they be THINGS IN EARTH or things in heaven. |