Thursday, April 19, 2007

Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 1:1-2

"It followeth 1. That if any can prove his election, he must stand and admire at the unsearchableness of God's free mercy, that he should think upon him a poor worm before the beginning of the world, and one that should be of the common flock of Adam, a sinful wretch; think of him, I say, to choose him to life passing by so many. Oh how should this ravish our hearts, and inflame us with love!

"2. That if any be rejected, they must not complain of cruelty in God, for that they are rejected; Is the clay to say to the Potter, why hast Thou made me thus? Beside, thou are not condemned but for the just deserts and sins which thou hast committed against God; all that can be said, is this, He gives not grace to them, as he hath done to his elect, whereof who shall complaine? God is bound to none." -- A Godly & Fruitful Exposition Upon all the First Epistle of Peter. by the Pious and Eminent Preacher of the Word of God, John Rogers of Dedham in Essex, 30.

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