Christ with all His salvation, is freely given by the grace of God to all that believe on Him: for "we are saved by grace through faith: and that not of ourselves; it is the gift of God," Eph. ii. 8, 9. "We are justified freely by His grace through faith in His blood," Rom. iii. 24, 25. The Holy Ghost, who is the bond of union between Christ and us, is a gift, Acts ii. 38. Now, that which is a gift of grace, must not at all be earned, purchased or procured by any work or works performed as a condition to get a right or title to it; and therefore faith itself must not be accounted such a conditional work. "If it be by grace, it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace," Rom. xi. 6. The condition of a free gift is only, take and have.
Walter Marshall — The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification, Direction IV (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1859), p. 72
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