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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61473	Free grace exalted, and thence deduced evangelical rules for evangelical sufferings : in two discourses made 29 March, and 10 May 1670, from Rom. 5, 21.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5480; ESTC R38299	24,282	32

is a consequent how full is this love which is anteceedent to the Union of Jesus Christ and a Soul out of which all good springs to a Soul is not this free grace that glory of God for which Jesus Christ lived and dyed that this truth might shine in the face of all his Saints this is that love in which the joy of all holy Angels and men is plac'd who art thou now when Jesus Christ lived and dyed to publish this joyful sound of free grace when the Ministers of Christ when Saints Baptised into the Spirit of Christ continually shout and cry concerning all good within them or round about them grace grace free grace love from eternity and to eternity who art thou that as Pilate negligently cryes what is this grace I understand it not and so goest away turning thy back on this grace on Jesus Christ on the glorious Ministry of this grace on the everlasting Father the Fountain of this grace this is the Prophane Heathen The second stranger and enemy to free grace is the pious Jew when Jesus Christ by his doctrine discovered his glory and the people believed on him the most religious Jews cryed out we know that God spake to Moses but whence this man came we know not Oh how many such Jewish devout spirits be among Christians when Jesus Christ in the Ministry of his Gospel shines out with the beams of free grace breaking out in their simplicity purity and unmix'd freedome see it not and know it not when Jesus Christ in his glorified face scatters those beams of grace into the bosome of many men they cry out this we know that Moses that the latter of the Scripture every where calls upon us to be doing to abound in good works to work out our Salvation with fear and trembling but what this doctrine of free grace is we know not nor whence it comes although there be no right doing or abounding in good works or working out Salvation but by the operation of this free grace for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do how ignorant are many of the Religious Jews among us of the glory of this King of the power of his reign who reigns by a Scepter of righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh let no more thine own reason the free will or power of the creature or all works arising from these in opposition to the free grace of God 〈◊〉 contend with it for the preheminence or copartnership to take the Scepter of righteousness out of his hand no free grace hath a most glorious Minister by which he will reign to bring out eternal life through righteousness and that is Jesus Christ in the place of free will right reason so called and all created excellencies he sets up Jesus Christ free grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ. The third enemy and stranger to the grace of God is the Vain Christian and this is of two kinds first he that playes the wanton with the grace of God Oh that there were not too much of this when God rained to the Jews the bread of Angels in the wilderness they loathed it and said What is this manna how insipid is this we find no strength in it Oh that this were not the temper of many How is that rellish of free grace that savour and esteem of free grace that eager feeding of the soul on free grace as the delicacy of Heaven and Eternity which was among the Saints of old now almost quite lost how do we play the wanton with this grace of God that reigns so freely we find no rellish in it to satisfie our understanding or to feed and feast our will and affections tak heed I beseech you of thus playing the wanton with free grace whosoever he be that subordinates the free grace of God to any thing besides its self or bounds it in any thing besides it self he that gives it confinement to or dependance on any thing of the creature or subjects the free grace of God to mans reason or which is the other wantoness turns this grace of God into a liberty to sin and makes this high free love a pretence or cloak to licentiousness he is a stranger and enemy to the grace of God as 't is of God he that sees not God to be all in all sees nothing at all of God rightly so he that sets not up the grace of God in the infiniteness unlimitedness independency of its own freedome and sweetness transcendent over antecedent to all good in the creature he makes the grace of God nothing grace is no grace unless it be all grace abate any thing of the freedome of divine grace and 't is no more grace at all I conclude this Use with the last of the Revelations 18. For I testifie to every man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the Plagues that are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the words of this book God shall take away his part out of the book of life See the danger of adding to or taking from the word of God now to bring this to my purpose you may see that this word of God is no other than the word of his grace no word comes from God to his people but the word of his grace it hath its beginning strength and end in this grace as appears 20 Acts 32. Now Brethren I commend you to God and the word of his grace which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance amongst all them that are sanctified he takes from adds to the word of God that takes from and adds to the grace of God O my beloved let us all then as the glory of God is dear to us as the peace of our souls and bodies is dear to us le ts take heed of taking from or adding to the grace of God if we take from the grace of God any thing of its own freedome of its antecedence to all good in all creatures God certainly will take from us proportionably of the purity of the peace of the power of his spirit in our spirits of the comfort and prosperity of our lives of consolation and joy in death of our blessedness and glory after death If we add to the grace of God any power in the creature any free will in the creature any excellency in the creature God certainly will so withdraw from us that by it we shall find we add to our corruptions we add to our care fear grief doubt despair and anguish while we live and add to the blackness of darkness in death and add to everlasting torments after death if this free grace it self do not interpose and prevent it by its own freedome My next Use is to perswade all Heathens Jews and Christians to seek after this