Glorious Grace

the drops of the night, arguing and pleading with them to accept of him for their own

sakes, though he makes so many glorious promises, though he holds forth so many

precious benefits to tempt them to happiness, perhaps for many years together, yet they

obstinately refuse all. Was ever such ingratitude heard of, or can greater be conceived of?

What would you have God do for you, that you may accept of it? Is the gift that he

offers too small, that you think it too little, for you to accept of ? Don’t Cod offer you his

Son, and what could Cod offer more? Yea, we may say God himself has not a greater gift

to offer. Did not the Son of God do enough for you, that you won’t accept of, him; did he

[not] die, and what could he do more? Yea, we may say that the Son of God could not do

a greater thing for man. Do you refuse because you want to be invited and wooed? You

may hear him, from day to day, inviting of you, if you will but hearken. Or is it because

you don’t stand in need of God’s grace? Don’t you need it so much as that you must either

receive it or be damned to all eternity, and what greater need can there possibly be?

Alas, miserable creatures that we are, instead of the gift of God offered in the gospel’s

not being great enough for us, we are not worthy of anything at all: we are less than the

least of all God’s mercies. Instead of deserving the dying Son of God, we are not worthy

of the least crumb of bread, the least drop of water, or the least ray of light; instead of

Christ’s not having done enough for us by dying, in such pain and ignominy, we are not

worthy that he should so much as look on us, instead of shedding his blood. We are not

worthy that Christ should once make an offer of the least benefit, instead of his so long

urging of us to be eternally happy.

Whoever continues to refuse Christ, will find hereafter, that instead of his having no

need of him, that the least drop of his blood would have been more worth to them, than

all the world; wherefore, let none be so ungrateful to God and so unwise for themselves,

as to refuse the glorious grace of the gospel.

III. Let those who have been made partakers of this free and glorious grace of God,

spend their lives much in praises and hallelujahs to God, for the wonders of his mercy in

their redemption. To you, O redeemed of the Lord, cloth this doctrine most directly apply

itself; you are those who have been made partakers of all this glorious grace of which you

have now heard. ’Tis you that God entertained thoughts of restoring after your miserable

fall into dreadful depravity and corruption, and into danger of the dreadful misery that

unavoidably follows upon it; ’tis for you in particular that God gave his Son, yea, his only

Son, and sent him into the world; ’tis for you that the Son of God so freely gave himself;

’tis for you that he was born, died, rose again and ascended, and intercedes; ’tis to you that

there the free application of the fruit of these things is made: all this is done perfectly and

altogether freely, without any of your desert, without any of your righteousness or