{"id":25457,"date":"2025-08-14T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25457"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:26:05","slug":"salvation-is-by-distinguishing-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/salvation-is-by-distinguishing-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Is By Distinguishing Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBy grace are ye saved.\u201d\u2014Ephesians 2:5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh thou man of God, let not this truth forsake thee; \u2018bind it about thy neck, write it upon the table of thine heart; it shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.\u2019 Prov. 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 \u2018the foot of pride prevail not against thee,\u2019 is a happy part of this glorious salvation, so as to submit to receive it as entirely of grace, free favour, unconditional election, unmerited love, \u2018according to the good pleasure of the will of God the Father.\u2019 Eph. 1:5. It is sovereign grace, therefore sure and saving to all the spiritual seed of Jesus. All in our nature are averse to it. Nothing in us could deserve a right to it, or procure a title to it. It is freely, proclaimed to the wretched and hell-deserving, who have neither power nor inclination to perform any terms and conditions to obtain an interest in it. But the Lord\u2019s hand laid the foundation; his power will raise the superstructure; \u2018He will bring forth the liead-stone thereof with shoutings of grace, grace.\u2019 Zech. 4:7.<\/p>\n

Salvation is by distinguishing grace. \u2018One shall be taken, and another left:\u2019 \u2018one of a city, and two of a family,\u2019 Jer. 3:14; whomsoever the Lord is pleased to separate to himself as vessels of honour The effects of saving grace are distinguishing; it works effectually in them that believe. They are \u2018called with a holy calling;\u2019 possess the \u2019faith of God\u2019s elect\u2019, and experience repentance to salvation. They differ from their former selves in hope and conduct, and are distinguished from the world \u2018that lies in wickedness.\u2019 Under its sovereign influence such a change was wrought in Paul, that he ‘who persecuted Jesus in his members, preached the faith he once destroyed.\u2019 Gal. 1:23. So every subject of grace is changed in judgment and affection. He no longer thinks grace is to assist him to do something to gain acceptance with God; but he knows, God hath made us \u2018accepted in the Beloved, to the praise of the glory of his grace.\u2019 Eph. 1:6. Hence his affections are placed upon the God of all grace, as the centre of all happiness, and the source of all felicity. He delights \u2018to run the way of God\u2019s commandments.\u2019 It is his joy that Jesus flies upon the wings of the wind to his relief: he loves to fly on the wings of faith and love to him. He daily prays \u2018to be filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.\u2019 Phil. 1:11.<\/p>\n

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Oh thou man of God, let not this truth forsake thee; \u2018bind it about thy neck, write it upon the table of thine heart; it shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.\u2019 Prov. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1239],"class_list":["post-25457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-sovereign-grace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25463,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457\/revisions\/25463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}