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

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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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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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 Ezek. 36. besides an heart of flesh, God promiseth to cause him to walk in his statutes. David prayed, That God would incline his heart to keep his Law. This determining grace is that, which Pelagians, Arminians and Jesuits object against, whereas if the power of God doth not this, our power will have the greater part in our Salvation.

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 Ezek. 36. besides an heart of flesh, God promiseth to cause him to walk in his statutes. David prayed, That God would incline his heart to keep his Law. This determining grace is that, which Pelagians, Arminians and Jesuites object against, whereas if the power of God doth not this, our power will have the greater part in our Salvation.

:1457p. 309–310

Fourthly, The power of God keeps us dirigendo, by directing and ordering our steps, so that we do not fall. We are very weak and unskilful, and like babes, who are said, Heb. 6. to be unskilful in the word of righteousness; Christ and the way of faith is unknown to us, a strange thing to us: As Sampson being blind, needed one to direct him, where the beams were: Thus we need direction concerning the Author of our strength, and how we may be made partakers of it. When David was in Saul's armour, he could not tell how to wield or manage it: The Lord Christ he it is that strengthens his people; a kind of omnipotency is communicated to them by him, I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me,

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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.