Justification is purely, and from first to last, an act of free grace. It will not do for any one to say, Christ died, God must pardon our sins therefore, and accept of our persons; for this does not follow; necessity is not laid upon God; there is no compulsion; he can do with his own as seemeth proper to him. He had from eternity power to send or not to send his Son to save us; he had power to give me or not to give me to his Son to be by him saved from sin and wrath; all the parts of his gracious design are connected throughout, and he is sovereign and free in all his gifts and acts of mercy done to our souls.

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