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

Fourthly, If we do Consider those many Commands and Exhortations, not to be high-minded, but fear, Rom. 11.20. To walk with fear and trembling, These argue a necessity of dependence upon God; The Apostle Rom. 11. bids a man take heed of boasting lest he fall, for thou bearest not the Root but the Root thee, Rom. 11.18 This is very pertinent, Thou dost not keep God to thee, but God keepeth thee to himself; The branch gives not juice to the Vine, but the Vine to the branch; The Arminians from such Exhortations would infer the Apostasy of Saints, but they are rather practical and powerful means whereby he doth preserve his people; By these admonitions to take heed of falling they are enabled to stand; Only by them we are advertised to look up unto God as being unable to establish our selves.

Fourthly, If we doe Consider those many Commands and Exhortations, not to be high-minded, but fear, Rom. 11.20. To walk with fear and trembling, These argue a necessity of dependance upon God; The Apostle Rom. 11. bids a man take heed of boasting lest he fall, for thou bearest not the Root but the Root thee, Rom. 11.18 This is very pertinent, Thou dost not keep God to thee, but God keepeth thee to himself; The branch gives not juyce to the Vine, but the Vine to the branch; The Arminians from such Exhortations would inferre the Apostasie of Saints, but they are rather practicall and powerfull means whereby he doth preserve his people; By these admonitions to take heed of falling they are enabled to stand; Only by them we are advertised to look up unto God as being unable to establish our selves.