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—UbirD (Tbaptcr.PREPARATORY GRACE. XVII.WhatIs It ? "We know that we death untohave passed from becauselife,Hethe brethren.welovethat loveth nothis brother abideth in death."\John\\\.14. ...
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— PREPARATORY GRACE284 not surrenderitGodas long- asand omnipresent; but byisindeed eternal, unchangeable,must forcibly protest against the untrue representation that God lets a man be born and live for years unnoticed and independent of Him ...
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WHAT sel theISIT?285work must be traced which God has wroughtforhim longbefore his conversion.The confession of election and foreordination is essentially the recognition of a grace active long before the hour of conversion. The idea ...
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— PREPARATORY GRACE286the abandoning of the sinner to iniquity, in hisown ways, giving him up untowhen Goda man walk do things thatletsvile passions toBut instead of interrupting God's labor upon such " to give them uj,," " to give them over ...
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—;XVIII.WhatIt IsNot. •'We areHis workmanship."Ephes. u.lo.In the preceding article we contended that there is preparatory In opposition to the contemporary deism of the Methodists,* truth in all the Reformed churches ought to ...
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;WHATISIT?287from other persons. And in all this, so confesses the Church, was the hand of the Omnipresent and Almighty God. It is He who during all these years of resistance has guided and directed His creature according to His own purpose. Sooner or later the ...
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:WHAT imparted not only to the representbut toall289Theybaptized persons.as followsitFirst, allnot take themenare conceived andfirst step, allHe impartsSecond,elect,NOTIT ...
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PREPARATORY GRACE2goand that in His e/ect is a great gulf. The workings in these nonelect have nothing in common with saving grace hence prepara;tory grace, as well as saving grace, is altogether out of the question.is preparatory grace, but only for the elect who come ...
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WHATIT ISNOT291can quicken him as tho quickening grace were conditioned upon preparatory grace. The salvation of our deceased infants opposes There were no moods or dispositions in them yet no this also. theologian will say that they are lost, or that they are saved by ...
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;PREPARATORY GRACE292 Our personis like the field wherein the sower is to scatter the Suppose there are two fields in which the seed must be sown; the one has been plowed, fertilized, harrowed, and cleared What is the of stones, while the other lies fallow, uncared for. resul ...
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