Ferdinand Schiverea, Grace Magnified: Evangelistic Addresses and Bible Readings (Toronto: S. R. Briggs, Willard Tract Depository, 1887), "Conversion," p. 51

Now the grace of God offers through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ a gift which is eternal life, and we are asked to accept it as a gift, by simple faith, and our acceptance of it gives us the possession of it…