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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
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Sermon 57: Reasons proving the Necessity of Gods preserving his Children in Grace, That God keeps…
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Secondly, Therefore need we the power of God to preserve us though furnished with inherent grace, because grace abiding in us is but a Creature that needeth help and support as well as other Creatures; Though Grace in us be the most glorious thing in the world, and the Image of God, yet being still a created being, it needeth preservation from God; So that as in our natural life we live, and breathe, and move in God, So it is much more in our Spiritual Life, So that as our grace because of the imperfection of it cannot justify us or save us, so neither from the weakness of it can it preserve, Grace is not God, neither hath it the power of God.
Secondly, Therefore need we the power of God to preserve us though furnished with inherent grace, because grace abiding in us is but a Creature that needeth help and support as well as other Creatures; Though Grace in us be the most glorious thing in the world, and the Image of God, yet being still a created being, it needeth preservation from God; So that as in our naturall life we live, and breathe, and move in God, So it is much more in our Spirituall Life, So that as our grace because of the imperfection of it cannot justifie us or save us, so neither from the weaknesse of it can it preserve, Grace is not God, neither hath it the power of God.
1Obj And if you say, That actual help of grace whereby God keepeth us, that is but a Creature, and then that must need another help, and so in infinitum, as some Arminians urge.
1Obj And if you say, That actuall help of grace whereby God keepeth us, that is but a Creature, and then that must need another help, and so in infinitum, as some Arminians urge.
- 1Quest.