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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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2. Therefore though Faith be instrumental thus to our Conservation, yet Faith it self needeth Gods help as well as other Graces;1 We need his help to believe as well as to love God and arise from sin; Therefore though the power of God keeps us by Faith, yet it also keeps Faith, Ut nos custodiat per fidem, ipsam custodit fidem; We should fall from our Faith as well as other graces, did not God strengthen and confirm that, Only when that is established God by it doth preserve us in the exercise of other graces, so that being confirmed by God this confirmeth and establisheth us rather then other graces, and that in these particulars.
2. Therefore though Faith be instrumentall thus to our Conservation, yet Faith it self needeth Gods help as well as other Graces;1 We need his help to beleeve as well as to love God and arise from sinne; Therefore though the power of God keeps us by Faith, yet it also keeps Faith, Ʋt nos custodiat per fidem, ipsam custodit fidem; We should fall from our Faith as well as other graces, did not God strengthen and confirm that, Onely when that is established God by it doth preserve us in the exercise of other graces, so that being confirmed by God this confirmeth and establisheth us rather then other graces, and that in these particulars.
- 12. Though faith be instrumental to our conservation, yet faith it self needeth Gods help as well as other graces.
1Faith is that grace to which the promise of Gods power is made preeminently; To him that believeth all things are possible, Mar. 9.23. So that as all the promises are yea and amen in Christ as the Foundation and meritorious cause, so they are yea and amen to Faith as instrumental; It's of Faith that the promise may be sure, Rom, 4.16. What promises then or deeds of gift God hath made over to his people; They are all made effectual to the believer; No Faith, no help, no assistance.