CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

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Sermon 46: Of Free-Grace, opposite to Arminianism; Tending to raise the hearts of those that are…Sermon 46: Of Free-Grace, opposite to Arminianisme; Tending to raise the hearts of those that are…

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¹The second step of that Ladder whereby the grace of God descends upon us is Vocation and Regeneration; That whereby the Lord doth graciously repair his lost image in us, and of dead in sin makes us live a spiritual life.

1II. Vocation is of grace.

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Now that this also is wholly of grace appeareth,

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Reasons. 1 1. From that original sin defiling the whole man with all the cursed effects thereof, for we are not merely deprived of all good but positively inclined to all evil, and filled with a cursed opposition to what is holy; The Scripture is very plentiful and emphatical in describing this sinful misery of ours; We are brambles and briars in the Wilderness till he plant us goodly plants in his Garden; We are compared to all manner of beasts for the sinful qualities in us, till he make us Sons of God, so that we would wonder to see the presumption and arrogancy of those Doctrines that would make man free to do good; Whereas our Saviour said, Then are we free when the Son hath made us free, Joh. 8.36. Tunc arbitrium est liberum, quando liberatum.

Reasons. 1 1. From that original sin defiling the whole man with all the cursed effects thereof, for we are not meerly deprived of all good but positively inclined to all evil, and filled with a cursed opposition to what is holy; The Scripture is very plentiful and emphatical in describing this sinful misery of ours; We are brambles and briars in the Wildernesse till he plant us goodly plants in his Garden; We are compared to all manner of beasts for the sinful qualities in us, till he make us Sons of God, so that we would wonder to see the presumption and arrogancy of those Doctrines that would make man free to do good; Whereas our Saviour said, Then are we free when the Son hath made us free,

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