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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 2: What must, and can Persons do Towards their own CONVERSION?
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11. Conclus. Acts of men towards Conversion, are not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, as making the person acceptable to God, or as inducements of God towards conversion;1 but we must acknowledge our selves unprofitable servants, when we have done all that is commanded us, Luke 17.10.
11. Conclus. Acts of men towards Conversion, are not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sinne, as making the person acceptable to God, or as inducements of God towards conversion;1 but we must acknowledge our selves unprofitable servants, when we have done all that is commanded us, Luke 17.10.
- 1Qui nobis ipsis nihil a deo meriti sumus, quibus deus nullam gratiam, nullam mercedē debet see. si jure nobiscum agat juxta conditionē servorū. Brugensis in loc.Qui nobis ipsis nihil a deo meriti sumus, quibus deus nullam gratiam, nullam mercedē debet se. si jure nobiscum agat juxta conditionē servorū. Brugensis in loc.
12. Conclus. Mans quickening, believing, repenting, or turning, are not acts of man in part, and partly of God, but they are wholly of God, and from God. You hath he quickened, Ephes. 2.1. they were dead, and could not quicken themselves, it was He, the Lord: So no man can come to me except the Father draw him, John 6.44. This drawing or causing the soul to believe in Christ is wholly the Fathers work.1