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ten do icfift it, to their own juft Condcmrta:
tion, and eternal Dcfirudion i for if the Olicr of
Grace was not real, Men could not be left without
Excufe.
Bat fiill the Scorner delights in his Scorning,
and Fools hate Knowkdg. And of this
Sort there are that call this Grace I fpeak of*
FreeWin Grace •
kt them if they pleafe.
r. It is Grace, from God's Free-Will, and
Good- Will to the Children of Men.
And, 2. it works a Free- Will m the Creature
to ad that which is well-pleafin2 to God
by Jefiis Chrift.
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And fo I care not, let the Scorner call li Free-.
Will Grace as long as he pleafes, and fo will I :
for God (hall thereby be honoured, the Scorner
reproved. Saints comforted, and unrcclaimable
Sinners lett without Excufe.
And .now, dear Friends, to conclude, I could
heartily wifh, for the bcneht of Chrift's Church
the Englifli Nation, and your Souls, that th^
Book I fpakc of was anfwered ; for I perceive ic
IS hugg'd as a wonderful choice Piece, and is
thought by fomc to be unanfwerable. Now I
confefs that I am a Man of mean Parts, and not
io able to difcufs and refolve difficult Points a$
many of my Brethren are : But 1 am able to fee,
( by the Grace of God ) that the Author of that
Book, whoever he was, hath greatly erred, and
gone afidc from the Truth, in the main Scope and
Dcfign of his Book. And as you are bound, by
Gofpcl-Rult^s, to be icady to every good Work,
fo