Don’t Add Anything to Grace – Richard Sibbes

by | December 22, 2018

If, as the Psalmist says, “he made us, and not we ourselves” (Psa. 100:3), shall we think that we have a hand in making ourselves again? Will God allow his glory to be encroached upon by intercessions of saints’ merits, and satisfaction, and free will? Grace is not glorious if we add the least thing of our own to it.

– Richard Sibbes –
from Glorious Freedom, 1639