A30241:1674
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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JOH. 17.12. I have kept them, and none of them is perished, but the Son of Perdition.
JOH. 17.12. I have kept them, and none of them is perished, but the Sonne of Perdition.
The Doctrine observed was, That none of those who are given by God to Christ shall perish.
THe Doctrine observed was, That none of those who are given by God to Christ shall perish.
To state and clear which Truth we have given in some particulars; and some more are now to be added, which if well digested will be so many Answers to those many Objections which are made against this Truth.
And First Consider, That though we hold the Godly man will persevere to the End, yet this is not to be attributed to his own power and strength, but solely to Gods Help; This Truth was maintained of old by Austin against the Pelagians, who thought a man by his own power might overcome Temptations, and persist constantly in what is good: In his Book De bono perseverantiae and lib. de correptione & gratiâ, He makes it his great work to overthrow that proud and presumptuous doctrine, and among other Arguments this is often urged, That a man prayeth unto God for perseverance, which would be absurd if it were in mans own power to give it, and he also presseth another Argument of two having equal grace (whether he mean true real sanctifying grace, is controverted by the Learned; Vossius saith he doth, but others think not, as Rivet: He propounds this Question, Why one doth persevere and not the other, as