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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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2. Grace doth not only thus imply a pure and only original from God himself, excluding us, but it supposeth also a manifest unworthiness in us, and a contrary desert to what God bestoweth upon us. Therefore grace in the Scripture language supposeth sinfulness in us, that we deserve to be abhorred, and cast out of Gods presence. Hence justification and pardon of sin are attributed to the grace of God, because we by our sins might justly have expected Gods vengeance, and his condemnation. So that the word Grace is still to debase us more and more in our own eyes. For it doth not only proclaim, that all cometh merely from God, but also that we are wretched sinners, who have deserved the anger and frowns of God, when now we have the light of his countenance. To ⟨p. 101⟩Adam God was very bountiful, and full of love; yet some Divines say, That we cannot call that Gods grace to him, because Adam was not in a sinful and contrary estate, deserving the wrath of God.
2. Grace doth not only thus imply a pure and only original from God himself, excluding us, but it supposeth also a manifest unworthiness in us, and a contrary desert to what God bestoweth upon us. Therefore grace in the Scripture language supposeth sinfulness in us, that we deserve to be abhorred, and cast out of Gods presence. Hence justification and pardon of sinne are attributed to the grace of God, because we by our sins might justly have expected Gods vengeance, and his condemnation. So that the word Grace is still to debase us more and more in our own eyes. For it doth not only proclaim, that all cometh meerly from God, but also that we are wretched sinners, who have deserved the anger and frowns of God, when now we have the light of his countenance. To ⟨p. 101⟩Adam God was very bountifull, and full of love; yet some Divines say, That we cannot call that Gods grace to him, because Adam was not in a sinfull and contrary estate, deserving the wrath of God.