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 63: Of the Saints Lord-Keeper. Showing how safe the Godly are kept to Salvation by Christ a…Sermon 63: Of the Saints Lord-Keeper. Shewing how safe the Godly are kept to Salvation by Christ a…

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2. There is his fidelity and immutability, He is the Amen, He is the Alpha and Omega, for we might think, though we are never so well to day as it was with Adam, and the Angels apostatizing, yet we may be undone to morrow, we may alter or Christ may alter, No, he is faithful and true, He is Christ to day, yesterday, and for ever, Heb. 13.

2. There is his fidelity and immutability, He is the Amen, He is the Alpha and Omega, for we might think, though we are never so well to day as it was with Adam, and the Angels apostatizing, yet we may be undone to morrow, we may alter or Christ may alter, No, he is faithfull and true, He is Christ to day, yesterday, and for ever, Heb. 13.

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3. There is his love and compassion ▪ for this quickens both power and fidelity, and sets all on work; It is his love to us that will not let his people perish, and certainly if he loved his Children so as to die for them, and that when they were sinners, then it follows invincibly that he will do that for us which is less then death; It is but speaking the word, whereas before it cost him many a prayer and strong cry, it put him in agonies, and made him sweat drops of blood; Again it is otherwise with us then formerly, When we are Enemies he died for us, and now being reconciled how much rather will he finish what he bath begun, Rom. 5

3. There is his love and compassion ▪ for this quickens both power and fidelity, and sets all on work; It is his love to us that will not let his people perish, and certainly if he loved his Children so as to die for them, and that when they were sinners, then it follows invincibly that he will do that for us which is lesse then death; It is but speaking the word, whereas before it cost him many a praier and strong cry, it put him in agonies, and made him sweat drops of bloud; Again it is otherwise with us then formerly, When we are Enemies he died for us, and now being reconciled how much rather wil he finish what he bath begun,

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SERMON LXIV. Of the Manner of Christs keeping those that are His. Of a four-fold Principle that is operative to the Preservation of Believers: And of the excellent Effects of the lively Meditation of this Doctrine of being kept by Christ to Salvation.