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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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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.
1I answer, Grace inherent in us is by way of a permanent principle abiding in us, and so needeth some to excite and quicken it, but this actual helping is by way of a transient principle, moving but not continuing, and so that doth not need a further help; This is like the sharpening of the edge of the tools; This is like the actual Ejaculation of the Sun-beams, which make Objects to be actually seen; Take heed then of magnifying grace too much within us, as in Popery, when it is made our Righteousness whereby we are justified before God, or when we judge this able of it self without further Auxiliaries of God to preserve us.
1I answer, Grace inherent in us is by way of a permanent principle abiding in us, and so needeth some to excite and quicken it, but this actuall helping is by way of a transient principle, moving but not continuing, and so that doth not need a further help; This is like the sharpening of the edge of the tools; This is like the actuall Ejaculation of the Sun-beams, which make Objects to be actually seen; Take heed then of magnifying grace too much within us, as in Popery, when it is made our Righteousnesse whereby we are justified before God, or when we judge this able of it self without further Auxiliaries of God to preserve us.