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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 23
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1. That whatsoever good God doth bestow upon us, it cometh solely and originally 1from his mere bounty and good pleasure. So that there is nothing in us, that may in the least manner, either merit with God, or move him to be thus gracious. So that we can never hear of this word [Grace] but it should presently humble and debase us, it should make us condemn our selves, and give all to God. For if it be of grace, than there was no motive in us, God out of his own bowels doth this for us, Rom. 1. 5, 6. The Apostle speaketh very fully to this, If of grace, than it is not of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. So that to acknowledge the grace of God, as Pelagians were forced to do, and so Papists and Arminians do, yet at last to divide between grace and our selves, to make us co-workers with it, yea to make it effectual; this is to take all away really, that we had given verbally before. So that if it be Gods grace, we must not give so much as the least sigh and desire to our selves; all cometh merely from the good pleasure of his own will.
1. That whatsoever good God doth bestow upon us, it cometh solely and originally 1from his meer bounty and good pleasure. So that there is nothing in us, that may in the least manner, either merit with God, or move him to be thus gracious. So that we can never hear of this word [Grace] but it should presently humble and debase us, it should make us condemn our selves, and give all to God. For if it be of grace, than there was no motive in us, God out of his own bowels doth this for us, Rom. 1. 5, 6. The Apostle speaketh very fully to this, If of grace, than it is not of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. So that to acknowledge the grace of God, as Pelagians were forced to do, and so Papists and Arminians do, yet at last to divide between grace and our selves, to make us co-workers with it, yea to make it effectual; this is to take all away really, that we had given verbally before. So that if it be Gods grace, we must not give so much as the least sigh and desire to our selves; all cometh meerly from the good pleasure of his own will.