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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.
1The third step of these eminent gifts God giveth his people is Justification from their sins; This is so great a matter that the Apostle makes our blessedness to consist in it; And David Psa. 32. out of the sense of this mercy overlooks all temporal comforts, though never so great, and admireth this: Now this is wholly of grace, Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his grace; The Apostle puts two words to show that it is altogether from the mere grace of God that we partake of such a privilege.
1The third step of these eminent gifts God giveth his people is Justification from their sinnes; This is so great a matter that the Apostle makes our blessednesse to consist in it; And David Psa. 32. out of the sense of this mercy overlooks all temporal comforts, though never so great, and admireth this: Now this is wholly of grace, Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his grace; The Apostle puts two words to shew that it is altogether from the meer grace of God that we partake of such a priviledge.
- 1III. Justification is of grace.