Re: (IVÁN): ORAR ES PODER en su GRACIA PERPETUA

[IVAN VALAREZO]

that my redeemer liveth."

147Luke 22:32, 61. "And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brother."
"And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter."

[148]Is. 6:10. "Shut their eyes."

149"The man who exists makes you God."

150"It is written: 'You are Gods' (Ps. 80:6), and the Scripture cannot be
made naught of."

151"This weakness is not for life; it is for death."

152"John 11:11 and 14. "'Lazarus sleeps,' and later it says: 'Lazarus is
dead.'"

[153]Ps. 44:4. Gladio tuo- "Thy sword, O most mighty."

[154]Heb. 10:5. "When he cometh into the world."

[155]Joel. 2:28. "I will pour out my spirit."

156Ps. 21:28. "All peoples shall come and worship him."

157Is. 49:6. "It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant," etc.

158Ps. 2:8. "Ask of me."

159Ps. 71:11. "All kings shall fall down before him."

160Ps. 34:11. "Witnesses rise up."

161Lam. 3:30. "He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him."

162Ps. 68:22. Dederunt in escam meam fel. "They gave me also gall for my
meat."

163Is. 49:6. "It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant," etc.

164Luke 2:32. "A light to lighten the Gentiles."

165Ps. 167:20. "He hath not dealt so with any nation."

166Matt. 26:27. "Drink ye all of it."

167Rom. 5:12. "for that all have sinned."

168Luke 12:32. "Fear not little flock."

[IVAN VALAREZO]

been under awakenings have
oftentimes plainly stood in need of being encouraged, by being told of
the infinite and all-sufficient mercy of God in Christ; and that it is
God's manner to succeed diligence, and to bless His own means, that so
awakenings and encouragements, fear and hope, may be duly mixed and
proportioned to preserve their minds in a just medium between the two
extremes of self-flattery and despondence, both which tend to slackness
and negligence, and in the end to security. I think I have found that no
discourses have been more remarkably blessed, than those in which the
doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty with regard to the salvation of
sinners, and His just liberty with regard to answering the prayers, or
succeeding the pains, of natural men, continuing such, have been
insisted on. I never found so much immediate saving fruit, in any
measure, of any discourses I have offered to my congregation, as some
from these words, Rom. iii. 19. "That every mouth may be stopped;"
endeavoring to show from thence that it would be just with God for ever
to reject a