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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, Seriously convince and inform thy Judgement of that Original pollution ⟨p. 221⟩which cleaveth to thee as soon as ever thou hast a Being: Remember those place In iniquity did my Mother conceive me, Psal. 51. The Imaginations of the thoughts of the heart are only evil, and that continually, Gen. 6. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? We are by nature the Children of wrath, Ephes. 2.3. Oh the true apprehension of this loathsome contagion will quickly make us cry out of our selves and any thing that is ours.
First, Seriously convince and inform thy Judgement of that Originall pollution ⟨p. 221⟩which cleaveth to thee as soon as ever thou hast a Being: Remember those place In iniquity did my Mother conceive me, Psal. 51. The Imaginations of the thoughts of the heart are onely evil, and that continuly, Gen. 6. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? We are by nature the Children of wrath, Ephes. 2.3. Oh the true apprehension of this loathsome contagion will quickly make us cry out of our selves and any thing that is ours.
Secondly, Remember the purity and perfection of the Law, what it is that requireth even the perfect actings of all grace, so that if there be wanting but one duty, yea, one degree of grace; The Law rejects all, and curseth all: There is no way but Hell and eternal damnation; N the knowledge of this must needs make a man cry out of himself because he fails in all things.