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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...of those words with verse 17, &c. import as much. He exhorts them to pass the time of their sojourning here in fear, not servile, but filial: " Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things," ver. 18. Be encouraged to all holy and humble obedience, since you are fully assured of your perfect redemption, &c. As the blood of Christ doth not purchase a corruptible redemption, so neither doth the grace of Christ work a corruptible regeneration. As the blood of Christ was incorruptible blood, by virtue of the hypostatical union, and in regard of the efficacy of it to our redemption; so is grace an incorruptible seed, by reason of the believer's union with the Son of God, its production by the Spirit of God, and in regard of that incorruptible word, whereby it is both begotten and maintained in us. The habit of grace attends the soul to heaven, and for ever. The vital principle was not extinct in David by his gross fall, since we find him not praying for salvation, but the joy of it; not praying tor the giving the Spirit, but not taking it away from him, which he had by his sin deserved to be deprived of: " Take not thy holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy salvation," Psa. li. 11, 12: and also for greater degrees of sanctification, and cleansing his heart from its filthiness and falseness. Grace may indeed, like the sun, be under an eclipse, but its internal light and heat cannot expire. 5.) Though grace be oppressed, yet it will recover itself. It is indeed sometimes overtopped by temptation, (as a fountain which being overflowed by the torrent of a neighbouring river, is covered while the flood lasts, that a man knows not where to find it; but, after those great waters are slid away,...
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