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This external revelation of the mind of Christ, ought not to be called sufficient grace ; it is indeed the means of ... for all men have it not, nor is it so to all that have it ; for to some it is the savour of death unto death, ...
... that God has prepared saving grace only for some few Christians, but for all Christians; that is, all that are Christ's; ... but with a temporal one, them, that they were doomed to eternal death, ! as did the Ninevites, ...
But what has this to do with the affairs of eternal life, or eternal death ? ... If it should be said, that those who are here called the salt of the earth, were the disciples of Christ, and therefore good men, as well as good preachers ...
The sufferings and death of Christ were absolutely and peremptorily decreed by God, and yet Christ as man desired that, if it was possible, the cup might pass from him ; and so he might wish as man for the temporal happiness of this ...
It is certain, that the death of Christ, and the very kind of death he should die, is intimated by his being lifted up from the earth ; since the evangelist observes in the next verse, that this he said signifying what death he should ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |