THE FREENESS AND SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD'S JUSTIFYING AND ELECTING GRACE. BY MARY JANE GRAHAM, LATE OF STOKE FLEMING, DEVON. SECOND EDITION. PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE : MDCCCXXXIV. PREFACE. MANY plain persons, who have not time to read long treatises, or to enter into the intricacies of controversy, entertain doubts upon some of the leading doctrines of the gospel, and suffer those doubts to remain unsatisfied, either because they deem the subject unprofitable, or think they have not time for its investigation. No subject, however, can justly be deemed unprofitable, a right knowledge of which is essential either to our eternal salvation, or to the comfort and consistency of our Christian walk. I believe the doctrine of free justifying grace to belong to the former class of subjects; that of sovereign electing grace to the latter. Every person who has time to read his Bible, and to pray over it, may obtain a clear and experimental knowledge of these truths; and to assist him in doing so, is the object of the following B |