A30241:1681
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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3. It is good to observe, That even the Adversaries to this Truth do grant that God is able to confirm a man in grace so that he shall never fall; They grant God doth establish the Angels in that happy condition that they shall never fall from it, yea, they will not contend but that de facto God did confirm some, as the Apostles, that they should never be separated from Christ; Now if this be granted, it will overthrow all those reasons that they bring to prove the perishing estate sometimes of the godly; For thus they argue, If a Godly man shall certainly be preserved, to what purpose then are all Counsels and exhortations? Why are they commanded to fear, and to take heed lest they fall; Do not all these Admonitions seem vain and absurd? As if we should bid a man take heed he do not fly up into the air, if he do, he will fall; Now if there be any absurdity in this, will not all this hold as well in those Apostles whom they grant to be infallibly preserved to Eternal Life; Though Christ told them Their Names were written in heaven. That he went to prepare a place for them, yet for all that he exhorts them to take heed of the least motions of sin, and abide in him, though he promiseth they shall continue in him.
3. It is good to observe, That even the Adversaries to this Truth do grant that God is able to confirm a man in grace so that he shall never fall; They grant God doth establish the Angels in that happy condition that they shall never fall from it, yea, they will not contend but that de facto God did confirm some, as the Apostles, that they should never be separated from Christ; Now if this be granted, it will overthrow all those reasons that they bring to prove the perishing estate sometimes of the godly; For thus they argue, If a Godly man shall certainly be preserved, to what purpose then are all Counsels and exhortations? Why are they commanded to fear, and to take heed lest they fall; Do not all these Admonitions seem vain and absurd? As if we should bid a man take heed he do not fly up into the air, if he do, he will fall; Now if there be any absurdity in this, will not all this hold as well in those Apostles whom they grant to be infallibly preserved to Eternal Life; Though Christ told them Their Names were written in heaven. That he went te prepare a place for them, yet for all that he exhorts them to take heed of the least motions of sinne, and abide in him, though he promiseth they shall continue in him.