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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¹Now the Grounds why Justification and pardon of sin must needs be of Grace, is

¹Now the Grounds why Justification and pardon of sinne must needs be of Grace, is

1Reasons.

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1. Because the Justice of God is like himself infinite; and so all the tears and grievances we may put our selves upon are not able to recompense God; We see the damned in hell are therefore detained in those chains of darkness to all Eternity, because they are not able to satisfy the justice of God, if they ⟨p. 253⟩could pay to the last farthing then they would be set at liberty; Every sin then even the least hath an infinite guilt in it in respect of Gods infinite Majesty against whom it is committed, so that neither one man, no nor all men or Angels are able to expunge the least blot; Oh then tremble under the least sin rhou art guilty of; Little dost thou consider how insupportable the guilt of it is, how impotent thy self and all the world is to cancel and wipe out this debt.

1. Because the Justice of God is like himself infinite; and so all the tears and grievances we may put our selves upon are not able to recompense God; We see the damned in hell are therefore detained in those chains of darknesse to all Eternity, because they are not able to satisfie the justice of God, if they ⟨p. 253⟩could pay to the last farthing then they would be set at liberty; Every sin then even the least hath an infinite guilt in it in respect of Gods infinite Majesty against whom it is committed, so that neither one man, no nor all men or Angels are able to expunge the least blot; Oh then tremble under the least sinne rhou art guilty of; Little dost thou consider how insupportable the guilt of it is, how impotent thy self and all the world is to cancell and wipe out this debt.

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SERMON XLVII. Of Gods Propriety in his People as the Ground of all the Good that accrueth to them.