Treatise of God’s Free Grace and Man’s Free Will

Softcover. New. 128 pp.

William Perkins (1558 – 1602) was a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a famous Cambridge theologian. He was a thorough Puritan who mentored such pastors as Jeremiah Burroughs.

This treatise is an echo of Scripture teaching how God’s will and man’s will work in their respective spheres. How do God and man relate concerning salvation? Perkins works from the text of Matthew 23:37-38.

It is designed to humble the creature in realizing that God’s free grace is that which enables man to believe the Gospel. And it also teaches that man’s free will is actually a slave to his desires. Perkins covers the will of God looking at both God’s sovereignty and God’s good pleasure in light of Jerusalem’s unwillingness to repent. He also covers the will of man in four important areas: in the garden before the fall, after the fall, in light of and after regeneration, and glorified in heaven.