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Title: Sovereign Grace
Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects

Author: Dwight Moody

Release Date: December 12, 2009 [EBook #30657]

Language: English

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_Sovereign Grace_

Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects

By D. L. Moody

_"By Grace are ye saved."--Ephesians ii. 8_

With Three Gospel Dialogues

Chicago New York Toronto

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

London and Edinburgh

_Copyrighted 1891 by Fleming H. Revell Company._

PREFATORY NOTE.

IN the exercise of his high calling, the faithful ambassador of
Christ must not scruple to declare the whole counsel of
God--"rightly dividing the word of truth," to all classes of hearers.
He must warn the openly wicked man that if he persists in his evil
courses, the just judgments of God will inevitably overtake him; he
must unmask the hypocrite; he must utter no uncertain protest
against the crooked and devious ways of the self-seeker and the
time-server. But if he enters into the Spirit of his Master, no part
of his public work will be more congenial or delightful than the
proclamation of the full, free, and sovereign grace of God,
manifested towards sinful men in the gift of His Eternal Son, to be
the Saviour of the world. It has been my happy privilege in years
past to tell out, as best I could, this wonderful story of redeeming
grace. The following pages record the addresses I have given on the
various aspects of this great subject. I pray God that in their
printed form they may serve to deepen in the mind of the reader the
appreciation of this grace, at once so infinite and so undeserved.

The chapter entitled "A Chime of Gospel Bells," though not strictly
flowing out of the general subject, is in perfect harmony with it;
every note in the chime is intended to ring out the gracious
invitation to "Come" to the God of all grace and be blessed. The
Dialogues which form the latter part of the book were heard with
much interest and profit at some of the London meetings; I thin