Posted by ivifmi on 01/24/08 18:39

it, that salvation has appeared too good for them, that they
were worthy of nothing but condemnation, and they could not tell how to
think of salvation being bestowed upon them, fearing it was inconsistent
with the glory of God's majesty, that they had so much contemned and
affronted.

That calm of spirit that some persons have found after their legal
distresses, continues some time before any special and delightful
manifestation is made to the soul of the grace of God as revealed in the
gospel. But very often some comfortable and sweet view of a merciful
God, of a sufficient Redeemer, or of some great and joyful things of the
gospel, immediately follows, or in a very little time: and in some, the
first sight of their just deserts of hell, and God's sovereignty with
respect to their salvation, and a discovery of all-sufficient grace, are
so near, that they seem to go as it were together.

These gracious discoveries given, whence the first special comforts are
derived, are in many respects very various. More frequently, Christ is
distinctly made the object of the mind, in His all-sufficiency and
willingness to save sinners; but some have their thoughts more
especially fixed on God, in some of His sweet and glorious attributes
manifested in the

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