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Rh or Grant that God hath made of Christ in the Word. Now Salvation is offered to every one in particular that hears these glad Tidings. Act. xi. 39. The Promise is to you, and therefore it is certain that Faith, which is the Answer to the Call of God in the Gospel, must lay hold on Salvation for the Person in particular. For suppose that the offer be to all in general; yet if a Man is not influenced by the Holy Spirit to appropriate to himself the common Salvation, for what did lie in common in the Gospel Offer, he cannot be said to receive or close with Christ as he is offered therein."

Here they endeavour to establish an Appropriation, to answer a Call and Offer founded upon a Deed of Gift and Grant that never existed, except in the Imagination of the Associate Presbytery, the Marrow and Mr Boston's Works. Where in the divine Records, is this universal Grant and Gift of Christ to be found? If this Appropriation is founded on the universal Offer, and the Offer is founded upon this Gift and Grant, there is some reason to conclude it has no Foundation in Divine Revelation. But let us see how the Presbytery makes this out. (1.) The Promise is to you. Act. ii. 39, To whom? To a number of Christian Converts whom Peter was the Instrument of converting by proving the Facts concerning the Death and Resurection of Christ. And does the Presbytery really be-