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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.
1.1 It's God only that preserveth and keeps the Truth of Grace once wrought in thee; We see Adam and Angels lost their precious Treasure of Grace; And can we think to be better Conservators then they were? No, thou wouldest immediately of a Paradise become a noisome dunghill, and a hell, did not the Lord keep thee; Hence the Apostle prayeth so often, that God would strengthen and settle them; No Leaf would fall sooner to the ground then our Graces wither, did not God keep them; We see then upon what Rock the godly are built, what it is, that though they are in the midst of spiritual Thieves and Robbers, yet their Jewels are not stolen, it is because God keeps them; Hence is the perseverance of the godly; Hence it is that Peters Faith is not totally and finally lost: David and Peter were in sad and great Temptations, in danger to lose all the Truth of grace put into them, and all had been gone but that God kept them; So that as in natural things God is not only the Creator but Preserver of all things, And if he did not uphold them by his arm, they would fall into their first nothing: Thus did not God graciously keep thee, thou wouldest fall into that old desperate state of impiety again, and be as profane and wicked as ever before.
1.1 It's God onely that preserveth and keeps the Truth of Grace once wrought in thee; We see Adam and Angels lost their precious Treasure of Grace; And can we think to be better Conservators then they were? No, thou wouldest immediately of a Paradise become a noisome dunghill, and a hell, did not the Lord keep thee; Hence the Apostle praieth so often, that God would strengthen and settle them; No Leaf would fall sooner to the ground then our Graces wither, did not God keep them; We see then upon what Rock the godly are built, what it is, that though they are in the midst of spiritual Thieves and Robbers, yet their Jewels are not stolen, it is because God keeps them; Hence is the perseverance of the godly; Hence it is that Peters Faith is not totally and finally lost: David and Peter were in sad and great Temptations, in danger to lose all the Truth of grace put into them, and all had been gone but that God kept them; So that as in natural things God is not only the Creator but Preserver of all things, And if he did not uphold them by his arm, they would fall into their first nothing: Thus did not God graciously keep thee, thou wouldest fall into that old desperate state of impiety again, and be as prophane and wicked as ever before.