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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1Obs. That all the spiritual good the godly enjoy is merely and solely from the gift and grace of God; This is a Point that the Scripture doth most diligently press and that over and over again, because we are so apt to attribute something to our selves; Thus the Apostle speaks generally, Jam. 1.17. Every good and perfect gift comes from above; The earth is no more able to give light to the world then we can do that which is truly good of our selves; Therefore 2 Cor. 21.4. What hast thou thou hast not received? The Apostle makes an universal charge, so that to say I have received from my self and made my self to differ from others, (as Grevinchovius the Arminian) is to blaspheme in an high manner, and to put our selves in the place of God; You see whatsoever privilege Gods people have, it is because they are given to Christ.
1Obs. That all the spritual good the godly enjoy is meerly and solely from the gift and grace of God; This is a Point that the Scripture doth most diligently presse and that over and over again, because we are so apt to attribute something to our selves; Thus the Apostle speaks generally, Jam. 1.17. Every good and perfect gift comes from above; The earth is no more able to give light to the world then we can do that which is truly good of our selves; Therefore 2 Cor. 21.4. What hast thou thou hast not received? The Apostle makes an universall charge, so that to say I have received from my self and made my self to differ from others, (as Grevinchovius the Arminian) is to blaspheme in an high manner, and to put our selves in the place of God; You see whatsoever priviledge Gods people have, it is because they are given to Christ.
- 1Doct. That all the spiritual good the godly enjoy is only the gift of God.Doct. That all the spirituall good the godly enjoy is only the gift of God.