Grove Chapel Pulpit - sermons Author:Thomas Bradbury General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?" Preached In Grove Chapel, Cajiberwell, Sunday Evening, Dec. SlST, 1876, By THOMAS BRADBURY. " What shall we then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us 1" -- Rom. viii. SI. IN noticing the two words, " these things " in the discourse this morning, I endeavoured to speak of them in the light which the precious truths stated in the two preceding verses throws upon them. Jehovah's foreknowledge of His own -- a knowledge of approbation and appreciation, a knowledge that settled their eternal election and preservation in Christ Jesus the Son of His love ; His foreknowledge, from which sprang the predestination of their persons, to all new covenant privileges handed over to their great Head, the responsible One, for the sure preservation and the sure conveyance of the same to each of the parties for whom they were designed, at the time specified in the eternal counsel -- the set time, the time of love. " Called," irrespective of anything in them or of them. He calls not according to their works, but according to His own purpose and grace, given to them in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, An effectual call, a call to every elect vessel of mercy, irresistible and invincible; invincible, for no obstacle can stand against it; all hindrances are cleared out of the way; irresistible according to the sweet words of Kelly -- '' All victorious is its course, Nothing can withstand its force." So it is with the call of the living God; He calls and there is no withstanding Him. He calls it a heavenly calling, for it is the voice of God from heaven...« less