Vines:
1)
Fifthly, That a man is not justified by the works that he does, or his duties, or compliance with th Law; but by the faith of Christ only, whom he lays hold of, being offered and freely tendered in the Gospel.
Richard Vines, God’s Drawing and Man’s Coming to Christ, Discovered in 32 Sermons on John 6.44, (London: Printed for Abel Roper, at the Sun Against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1662), 9.
2)
And therefore we must distinguish between the offer of free grace, and the effects of it: grace in the offer of it may be common to all, and in a sort universal, but in the effects you shall always observe grace to be of a differencing nature; it discriminates and makes a difference between one and another in salvation, and therein is the glory of it; and reason will show, that so far as it differences one from another, it is not universal: for that which differences, cannot be universal; the election has obtained, and the rest were hardened, Rom. 11.
Richard Vines, God’s Drawing and Man’s Coming to Christ, Discovered in 32 Sermons on John 6.44, (London: Printed for Abel Roper, at the Sun Against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1662), 13-14.
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