CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

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Sermon 56: That it's not enough to be put into a state of Grace, unless by Gods Power we are kept…

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Secondly, The power of God helpeth excitando, by stirring up and quickening those habits and principles of grace, which are in us. Our faith, our love, are apt to lie dormant in the soul, till they be awakened. Thus David, though in the state of grace prayeth often, That God would quicken him, that he might keep Gods Commandments, Psal. 119. And this the Church prayeth for, Cant. 1. Draw me, and we will run after thee; so that were there not this drawing, this quickening the people of God would be like so many lumps of earth, they would be very Idols in all their duties, seeing they would not see, and though knowing, yet not understand. This exciting grace is as necessary every moment to thee for spiritual life, as the air is for thy natural.

Secondly, The power of God helpeth excitando, by stirring up and quickning those habits and principles of grace, which are in us. Our faith, our love, are apt to lie dormant in the soul, till they be awakened. Thus David, though in the state of grace prayeth often, That God would quicken him, that he might keep Gods Commandments, Psal. 119. And this the Church prayeth for, Cant. 1. Draw me, and we will run after thee; so that were there not this drawing, this quickning the people of God would be like so many lumps of earth, they would be very Idols in all their duties, seeing they would not see, and though knowing, yet not understand. This exciting grace is as necessary every moment to thee for spiritual life, as the air is for thy natural.

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Thirdly, The power of God keeps, inclinando, by inclining and determining the heart: For though the heart have grace in it habitually, yet the world and sin tempt strongly; so that these habitual principles work not, till God incline and determine the heart, as

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SERMON LVII. Reasons proving the Necessity of Gods preserving his Children in Grace, That God keeps them by Faith, Also why and how Faith keeps them rather then other Graces.