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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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Reasons. 2 2. It's all of grace, because the Scripture attributeth this work solely to God; That famous promise I will take away an heart of stone, Eze. 11.19. I will give an heart of flesh, I will write my Law in their hearts, do argue he must be wilfully blind that will not acknowledge this to be Gods work alone; Now then if it be Gods work it cannot be ours also, unless subjectively, not causally; Hence it's called the New Creature, because God immediately gives us such a being, and indeed the experience of the godly soul doth evidently witness this; How long should I have wallowed in my lusts? how unwilling to leave them till God changed my heart; If God had stayed for my consent and cooperation, I had still been in the gall of bitterness; It's God then and not man who layeth the first stone in this spiritual building: Doth not the heart of a godly man inform him of more Orthodoxy in this Point then most Books will do? Didst thou not keep thy lusts with all might? Didst thou not wage open war against God? Didst thou yield thy self by agreement, or not rather by full conquest?
Reasons. 2 2. It's all of grace, because the Scripture attributeth this work solely to God; That famous promise I will take away an heart of stone, Eze. 11.19. I will give an heart of flesh, I will write my Law in their hearts, do argue he must be wilfully blinde that will not acknowledge this to be Gods work alone; Now then if it be Gods work it cannot be ours also, unlesse subjectively, not causally; Hence it's called the New Creature, because God immediatly gives us such a being, and indeed the experience of the godly soul doth evidently witnesse this; How long should I have wallowed in my lusts? how unwillng to leave them till God changed my heart; If God had staied for my consent and cooperation, I had still been in the gall of bitternesse; It's God then and not man who laieth the first stone in this spiritual building: Doth not the heart of a godly man inform him of more Orthodoxy in this Point then most Books will do? Didst thou not keep thy lusts with all might? Didst thou not wage open war against God? Didst thou yield thy self by agreement, or not rather by full conquest?