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This may lead us to observe the insufficiency of moral suasion and the external ministry of the word, without the powerful and efficacious grace of the Spirit. 3. It is now easy to discern in what sense the Spirit of God may be opposed ...
For God passionately to wish good things, even salvation itself, for some, and not for all, is no ways contrary, ... Such pathetic ^f expressions are thought to imply, that God gives to all men sufficient grace for conversion, ...
... God only could give it to them ; and therefore they should apply to him for it, and not presume, as they seemed to do, to hearken to his commandments, and obey them in their own strength, and without the assistance of i his grace.
... and is used, through the grace of God, to bring those who are designed for happiness, into a state of grace meet for the same; and to leave others inexcusable, to discover the more the corruption and vitiosity of their nature, ...
This passage is produced by the Remonstrants, to prove the resistibility of the grace of God in conversion ,4 in favour of the de- i fectibility of the saints ; and by a late writer, § i as irreconcilable with God's decrees of elec- j ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |