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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.
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.
1Fourthly, God is holy efficiently, He is the Author and cause of all the holiness we have, James 1.17. Every good and perfect gift comes from him; We are his Workmanship created to good works; He made the Angels holy, He created Adam holy, yea, he infused all holiness into Christs humane Nature, and therefore much rather must he cause all the holiness that is in us; Therefore Christ by praying that God would sanctify his Disciples, doth thereby teach, that none can make holy but God alone; Let then the proud Patrons of free-will be confounded at this; They that cannot make themselves Creatures, will they say' they make themselves holy Creatures? Minus est te fecisse hominem quam justum.
1Fourthly, God is holy efficiently, He is the Authour and cause of all the holinesse we have, Iames 1.17. Every good and perfect gift comes from him; We are his Workmanship created to good works; He made the Angels holy, He created Adam holy, yea, he infused all holinesse into Christs humane Nature, and therefore much rather must he cause all the holinesse that is in us; Therefore Christ by praying that God would sanctifie his Disciples, doth thereby teach, that none can make holy but God alone; Let then the proud Patrons of free-will be confounded at this; They that cannot make themselves Creatures, will they say' they make themselves holy Creatures? Minus est te fecisse hominem quam justum.
- 1IV. Holy efficiently.
1Fifthly, He is finally holy, That is all our holiness is to terminate in him; Holiness doth properly respect God as the Object, and therefore though a man prayeth, heareth, giveth alms, yea; his body to be burnt, and doth not with a pure and chaste Intention look at Gods glory in all this, it is not holiness; Hence it is that many have low thoughts about holiness, and grossly mistake in it, taking copper for Gold, and Samuel's Ghost for Samuel himself; Thou art not holy till thou canst truly say in some Degree at least, though with much opposition, Whom have I in Heaven but God? and none on Earth besides him: In Heaven Heaven it self would not be heaven to a gracious heart, but because God is there.