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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 24
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1. That the Scripture-grace doth begin all the good in us. We do not prevent God, but he prevents us. Thus our Saviour, You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you: We love him, because he loved us first. So that the word of God doth still resolve the original of all we have into this grace of God, as Rom. 9. and Rom. 11. Ephes. 1. Whosoever therefore makes something in us to begin, and then Gods grace to be subsequent; he setteth not up grace in a Scripture-way. Therefore there are no antecedent merits or dispositions in us, for which God doth afterwards bestow his grace upon us. The very first desire, inspiration, and least unfeigned groans after Christ is from this grace of God. Therefore the beginnings of what is good; is attributed to God, as well as the progressives, yea the initials most of all, because then we were dead in sin, and in a state of enmity against God.
1. That the Scripture-grace doth begin all the good in us. We do not prevent God, but he prevents us. Thus our Saviour, You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you: We love him, because he loved us first. So that the word of God doth still resolve the original of all we have into this grace of God, as Rom. 9. and Rom. 11. Ephes. 1. Whosoever therefore makes something in us to begin, and then Gods grace to be subsequent; he setteth not up grace in a Scripture-way. Therefore there are no antecedent merits or dispositions in us, for which God doth afterwards bestow his grace upon us. The very first desire, inspiration, and least unseigned groans after Christ is from this grace of God. Therefore the beginnings of what is good; is attributed to God, as well as the progressives, yea the initials most of all, because then we were dead in sin, and in a state of enmity against God.