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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 64: Of the Manner of Christs keeping those that are His. Of a four-fold Principle that is o…
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First, There is an inward vital and vivifical principle of grace abiding in the godly, which will never fail: Not but that of it self, it would, as in Adam and Angels, but as God could confirm and establish the grace of Angels, that it never shall perish; so doth God that supernatural principle of holiness put into his people,1 1 John 3.8. He that is born of God, he neither doth sin, or can sin, viz. so as to be given up wholly to it, and that because the seed of God abideth in him. Though there be different thoughts about this seed, what it is, I do now suppose it to be that inward principle of supernatural life, from whence all gracious operations do flow. This God hath set in the heart and inward parts of his people never to be rooted out. Thus John 4 14. The believer is said to have in him a well of water, springing up to eternal life. Here is a fountain that cannot be dried up: Therefore it's said, He shall never thirst more, viz. with a thirst of a total indigence and want: Even in the greatest deficiencies and barrenness of Gods people, there hath been sap in the root, when the branches seemed dead.
First, There is an inward vital and vivifical principle of grace abiding in the godly, which will never fail: Not but that of it self, it would, as in Adam and Angels, but as God could confirm and establish the grace of Angels, that it never shall perish; so doth God that supernatural principle of holiness put into his people,1 1 John 3.8. He that is born of God, he neither doth sinne, or can sinne, viz. so as to be given up wholly to it, and that because the seed of God abideth in him. Though there be different thoughts about this seed, what it is, I do now suppose it to be that inward principle of supernatural life, from whence all gracious operations do flow. This God hath set in the heart and inward parts of his people never to be rooted out. Thus John 4 14. The believer is said to have in him a well of water, springing up to eternal life. Here is a fountain that cannot be dried up: Therefore it's said, He shall never thirst more, viz. with a thirst of a total indigence and want: Even in the greatest deficiencies and barrenness of Gods people, there hath been sap in the root, when the branches seemed dead.