Vie Cobra=ofpuceOprnr))+ Anfw. Grace only humbles ; They (hall look to me, whom they pierced, andfhaïl mourn : But God firm pours upon them the Spirit ofGrace, before they can thus look, or mourn : See Zech. 12. z o. all previous Qualifications before Grace, are,abominable to God, becaufe the State of the Soul is fuch ; and all fuck 'things that pro- ceed not fromFaith, God abhorreth 'tis but a working forLife, and not from Life ; Is the Improvement of Common Graced the Frderal- Condition ofgetingSpecial ? No furel . APPLICATION. t Infer. From hence we may infer, That in. the Covenant of Peace, the Promifes of God areAbfolute and that this Abfolutenef ;im- plies, that all the Conditions that arerequired on the Creature's part, Grace is promifed to them to perform themon God's part,t 'Vho works in us to will and to do ofhis own goodPleafure. 2. This Proclamation is not fo t?niverfal, but that it wholly dependeth upon God's So- vereignPleafure, who Ihall reap the Benefit of it : 'Tis fent to one Nation, and not to ano- ther; God is not obligedto fend it to all Kiitg doms and Nations, nor to all in that Nation whither lie is pleafed to fend it ; but if Chrift died forall, I mean in the ffead ofall, to fa- tisfieDivine Juffice for every individual Per- fon, then he would be Unjuft in not fending the Gofpel to themall But he muff Call all, and be fore he would give all the lelTèr Gifts, as well as the greater, viz. the Gofpel and M 4 Faith
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