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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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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 ⟨p. 159⟩brought you nearer to Believing; and through your own wilfulness, became not Effectual: Even as Adam had sufficient grace to have stood, which was not Effectual. So that you had not only Christ offered to you, if you would but Accept him; but you had daily and precious helps and means, to have cured your wills, and caused you to Accept him: for neglect of which, and so for not believing, and so for all your other sins, you Justly perish.
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 neerer 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 ⟨p. 159⟩brought you neerer to Believing; and through your own wilfulness, became not Effectual: Even as Adam had sufficient grace to have stood, which was not Effectual. So that you had not only Christ offered to you, if you would but Accept him; but you had daily and precious helps and means, to have cured your wills, and caused you to Accept him: for neglect of which, and so for not believing, and so for all your other sins, you Justly perish.