There are many things which men call the grace of God that are not.

1. The light and knowledge that are in every man.

2. That natural willingness that is in man to be saved.

3. That power that is in man by nature to do something, as he
thinketh, towards his own salvation.

But do thou remember that the grace of God is his good-will and
great love to sinners, in his Son Jesus Christ; by the which
good-will they are sanctified, through the offering up of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.

His blood is not laws, nor ordinances, nor commandments, but a
price, a redeeming price. He justifies us by bestowing upon us, not
by expecting from us. He justifies us by his grace, not by our
works.

OPERATION OF GRACE.

The good child is not the first-born, but Abel. God often doth as
Jacob did, even cross hands in bestowing blessings, giving that
which is best to him that is least esteemed; for Cain was "the man"
in Eve's esteem: she thought, when she had him, she had got an
inheritance; but as for Abel (vanity,) he was little worth; by his
name they showed how little they set by him.

It is so with the sincere to this day; they bear not the name of