Shepard - Houston-Packer Collection BV4914 .S5 1659

,.11..,.w._., The Sincere Convert, Pat them who maintaine that a manma y fall away from true grace:, the reafon lieth here: They fet up to themfelves fuch ' a common work of grace ; from which no wonder that a man may fall. Hence,Bellarzninefaith,That which is true grace veritate efentia, onely, may be loft ; not that ,gracewhich is true, ve- ritate firma foliditatis : which latter being rightly underftood ,. may be called fpecial grace, as the other common grace. Hence alfo you {hall have many Profeffors hearing a hundred Sermons never moved to grow bet- ter. Hence likewife you fhall fee our, com- rnon Preachers comfort every one almoft, that they fee troubled in mind, becaufe they think prefently they have true grace , now they be- gin to be forrowfull for their fins. 'Tis juft according to their own light weights. ' For the Lords fake take heedof thisdeceit. True grace (I tell you ) it's a rare pearl, a gloriousSunclouded from the eyes of all but them that have it Revel. 2.17. a firange, admirable, almighty work of God upon the foul, which no created power can produce ; as far different in the leaft meafure of it, from the higheft degree of common grace, as a De- vil in from an Angel ; for 'tis Chrift living, breathin : reionino fi htino con uerin in the foul. Down t ere ore wit your idol- grace, your Idol-honefty,truegrace never aims at a pitch, it afpires only to perfehion, Phil. 3. 12, 13. And therefore Chryfofom, calls S. Paul, infatiabilis Dei cultor, a greedy in-' fatiable I25 Mans per- dition is of himfelf, Bellarm. Truegrace' is clouded from the eyes ofall but them that have it. ......

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