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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 8
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First, Every privilege we have in the Church of God, we obtain it by the mere will of God. And this must needs be so, for our call to the Church-privileges, such as Justification, and Adoption, and Salvation, are greater and higher mercies than any peculiar Office never so eminent. If God hath called thee to sanctifying grace in an effectual manner, this is far greater than to be made an Apostle. Judas was chosen to an Apostleship, but not to salvation, and therefore his end was dreadful.
First, Every priviledge we have in the Church of God, we obtain it by the meer will of God. And this must needs be so, for our call to the Church-priviledges, such as Justification, and Adoption, and Salvation, are greater and higher mercies than any peculiar Office never so eminent. If God hath called thee to sanctifying grace in an effectual manner, this is far greater than to be made an Apostle. Judas was chosen to an Apostleship, but not to salvation, and therefore his end was dreadfull.
The Scripture speaketh of a two-fold Call, That general one, which belongs 1to all the people of God, who are his called ones, and that according to his purpose; and a special particular Call to some Office or Relation; and both these are of the will and good pleasure of God. For our effectual Calling as Christians, This is frequently ascribed to be of grace, not by works we have done, Rom. 9 15, 16. It's not of him that willeth. You see, it's not our will, our power, or strength, but of God that willeth. Thus Jam. 1. 18. Of his own will begat he us. This consideration then should humble all the godly, as Paul saith here, An Apostle by the will of God: so mayest thou, a Believer by the will of God, justified by the will of God; it's because God will have it so; my will, my power, nor the will of any man else, could not effect it for me. And this is for the general, as we are called to be believers.