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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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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.
Lastly, We are none of our own in being the Fathers; Thus the Apostle, We are none of our own, Therefore we are to glorify God both in soul and body, 1 Cor. 6.20. Our Tongues, our Body, our Affections, are not our own; We may not love as we list, nor desire as we list: It's theft and Sacrilege thus to steal from God; Why should it be a wound in thy Conscience to detain that which is another mans, and not rather that which is Gods: My Son give me thy heart; If sin hath it, If the world hath it, these are not the ⟨p. 258⟩right owners; Remember whose thou art, and this will keep thee solely and wholly for God.
Lastly, We are none of our own in being the Fathers; Thus the Apostle, We are none of our own, Therefore we are to glorifie God both in soul and body, 1 Cor. 6.20. Our Tongues, our Body, our Affections, are not our own; We may not love as we list, nor desire as we list: It's thset and Sacriledge thus to steal from God; Why should it be a wound in thy Conscience to detain that which is another mans, and not rather that which is Gods: My Son give me thy heart; If sinne hath it, If the world hath it, these are not the ⟨p. 258⟩right owners; Remember whose thou art, and this will keep thee solely and wholly for God.
1These things premised let us now see How the Propriety we have in God is the cause of all our good;
- 1How the propriety in God is the cause of all good.