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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.
And in the general there is no temporal or spiritual good we have, but our propriety in God is the Foundation of it: If the Apostle argue that because he hath given us Christ, how shall he not with him give us all things else? Rom. 8. How much rather if God give us himself, shall he not give us all things: The marrow and whole substance of the Covenant of grace lieth in this, That God will be our God and we shall be his People: God doth not find us but make us his, and when so made then all good things are bestowed on us; We will select some choice particulars, and that two ways.
And in the generall there is no temporall or spirituall good we have, but our propriety in God is the Foundation of it: If the Apostle argue that because he hath given us Christ, how shall he not with him give us all things else? Rom. 8. How much rather if God give us himself, shall he not give us all things: The marrow and whole substance of the Covenant of grace lieth in this, That God will be our God and we shall be his People: God doth not finde us but make us his, and when so made then all good things are bestowed on us; We will select some choice particulars, and that two waies.
1. Of those good things we have from God. 2. Of those good things we have by approaching to good our active and passive good.
And first Pardon of sin in which the Psalmist speaks our blessedness to consist is given us because we are hi•. Thus Heb. 8. when God promised to be the God of his People in the Covenant of Grace, Then followeth the Forgiveness of their sins, And he will remember their Iniquities no more; And this they must necessarily enjoy, For Guilt of sin separateth between God and the sinner, it makes him at a distance, and in a state of Enmity; But this propriety takes away all Ground of Condemnation,