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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 9
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The thirtieth Excuse. God will require no more than •e gives. He gave me not Grace to Repent and Believe, and without his gifts I could not have it.
Answ. 1. God will justly require ⟨p. 158⟩more than he giveth; that is, The improvement of his Gifts, as Mat. 25. shows. He gave Adam but a Power to persevere, and not Actual perseverance: Yet did he justly punish him for want of the Act; even for not using by his own will, the Power which he had given him.
Answ. 1. God will justly require ⟨p. 158⟩more than he giveth; that is, The improvement of his G•fts, as Mat. 25. shews. He gave Adam but a Power to persevere, and not Actual perseverance: Yet did he justly punish him for want of the Act; even for not using by his own will, the Power which he had given him.
2. It is long of your self if God did not give you Grace to Believe: It was because you wilfully refused some preparatory Grace. Christ found you at a great distance from him, and he gave you Grace sufficient, to have brought you nearer to him than you were; you had grace sufficient to have made you better than you were, and restrained many sins, and brought you to the means when you turned your back on them: Though this were n•t sufficient to cause you to Believe, it, was sufficient to have