Distinguishing and Sovereign Grace
" By grace ye are saved." —Ephesians 2:5 [KJV] O thou man of God, "let not this truth forsake thee; bind it about thy neck, write it upon the table of thine heart; it shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones." — Proverbs 3:3, 8 . In the faith of this, thou wilt live in love and gratitude to God, in cheerful obedience to His sovereign will, and in confident hope and earnest expectation of eternal glory. While thou wilt be daily dying to every carnal hope and legal confidence, by the atonement and righteousness of Jesus, His grace will be all thy plea, all thy hope, and all thy glorying. Hereby thou wilt be kept humble, and walk safely. That "the foot of pride prevail not against thee," is a happy part of this glorious salvation, so as to submit to receive it as entirely of grace, free favor, unconditional election, unmerited love, "according to the good pleasure of the will of God the Father." — Ephesians 1:5 . It is SOV