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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 47: Of Gods Propriety in his People as the Ground of all the Good that accrueth to them.
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.
12. As it is the mere goodness of God to make a people his, so it is not out of any want or any necessity, any need that he hath of us, that he did thus make us his, and this also is a quickening consideration; Husbands have Wives because they want such helps, Masters have Servants because they need them; Even the greatest Monarchs want their people; But it is otherwise with God, My goodness extends not to thee, saith David, Psa. 16.2. And thus Job was told, that if he were perfect and righteous he did not advantage God, God is the Elshaddai the Allsufficient God blessed and happy enough in himself; Though he had never created the world, Though he had not appointed one man to Eternal glory, yet such was his goodness that he would have those Objects to whom he might communicate of his fullness; And therefore God of many thousands hath made such and such his, not that he wanted their graces, duties, or prayers, but that they might partake of his riches.
12. As it is the meer goodnesse of God to make a people his, so it is not out of any want or any necessity, any need that he hath of us, that he did thus make us his, and this also is a quickning consideration; Husbands have Wives because they want such helps, Masters have Servants because they need them; Even the greatest Monarchs want their people; But it is otherwise with God, My goodnesse extends not to thee, saith David, Psa. 16.2. And thus Job was told, that if he were perfect and righteous he did not advantage God, God is the Elshaddai the Allsufficient God blessed and happy enough in himself; Though he had never created the world, Though he had not appointed one man to Eternal glory, yet such was his goodnesse that he would have those Objects to whom he might communicate of his fulnesse; And therefore God of many thousands hath made such and such his, not that he wanted their graces, duties, or praiers, but that they might partake of his riches.
- 12. And from his mere goodness not out of any want.2. And from his meer goodness not out of any want.