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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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2. If we consider the transcendent dignity of that glory God will bestow on us; It must needs be solely of grace; For the Apostle tells us The eye hath not seen it▪ nor the ear heard it, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive of is, 1 Cor. 2.9. It's no less then enjoying God himself, The immediate fruition of himself is the only happiness we shall have; Now what comparison is there between our graces, and God himself, Again the Transcendency is seen in the duration: Suppose our graces were present yet are they but for a season; They are transient expressions; Whereas our happiness doth endure for ever.
2. If we consider the transcendant dignity of that glory God will bestow on us; It must needs be solely of grace; For the Apostle tels us The eye hath not seen it▪ nor the ear heard it, nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive of is, 1 Cor. 2.9. It's no lesse then enjoying God himself, The immediate fruition of himself is the only happinesse we shall have; Now what comparison is there between our graces, and God himself, Again the Transcendency is seen in the duration: Suppose our graces were present yet are they but for a season; They are transient expressions; Whereas our happinesse doth endure for ever.
3. If we are enabled to do any good thing, we are so far from deserving at Gods hand, That we are the more obliged to him, and ought to be the more thankful, Coronat dona sua, non merita nostra; The more thou art enabled to repent or believe, the more thankful art thou to be to the grace of God: Thus all is of grace.
3. If we are enabled to do any good thing, we are so farre from deserving at Gods hand, That we are the more obliged to him, and ought to be the more thankfull, Coronat dona sua, non merita nostra; The more thou art enabled to repent or beleeve, the more thankfull art thou to be to the grace of God: Thus all is of grace.