The Glory of His Grace

MAY  9

The glory of His grace

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he

hath made us accepted in the beloved. Ephesians 1:6

The glory of grace is it’s FREENESS: it fixes upon objects that are most unworthy; bestows upon them the richest blessings; raises them to the highest honour; promises them the greatest happiness; and all for its own glory.

Nothing can be freer than grace, the glory of grace is its POWER; it conquers the stubbornness sinner; subdues the hardest hearts; tames the wildest wills; enlightens the darkest understanding; breaks off the strongest fetters; and invariably conquers its object.

Grace is omnipotent.

The glory of grace is its BENEVOLENCE; it never injured one; it has delivered, supplied, conducted, supported, and glorified thousands; it brings the inexhaustible fulness of God to supply the creature’s wants; it opens the treasury of heaven, to enrich poor, miserable, and wretched creatures on earth.

Grace gives away all it has, reserving nothing for itself but the praise and glory of it ask.

Jesus is grace personified; in Him it may be seen, in all its beauty, excellency, and loveliness; by Him it is displayed in all its native dignity.

O Jesus! glorify thy free, powerful and benevolent grace in me!

O grace, thou bottomless abyss,

My sins are swallow’d up in thee;

Cover’d is my unrighteousness;

From condemnation I am free;

For Jesu’s blood, through earth and skies,

Mercy, eternal mercy cries.

James Smith