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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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To open this, Consider,
Consider. 1 First, That men are set in places, relations and habitations by God. All our relations, changes and offices, they are wholly ordered by God, yea our very places and habitations they are bounded; and certainly, if those things that seem to be most casual, are yet by the ordering of a wise God, much more those things that are of a greater concernment. Hence
Consider. 1 First, That men are set in places, relations and habitations by God. All our relations, changes and offices, they are wholly ordered by God, yea our very places and habitations they are bounded; and certainly, if those things that seem to be most casuall, are yet by the ordering of a wise God, much more those things that are of a greater concernment. Hence
Secondly, God doth not only order all conditions and passages towards us, but he doth it in reference either to our spiritual welfare or disadvantage. Rom. 8. To the godly, all things work together for their good; Whatsoever estate, mercy, or condition they are in, it's the effect of their Predestination; so that as Ordinances and Graces flow from their Predestination, so do all other their outward mercies and conditions, only here is this difference, The Graces of Gods Spirit are intrinsically apt of themselves to prepare for happiness, and so are the direct effects of it; but temporal mercies, they are not so, but propter aliud: Therefore we are not properly said to be predestinated, to be rich, to be poor, to be married, to live a single life; as we are to be holy, because these outward conditions are only indifferent in their natures, but through the grace of God, they become very serviceable to their spiritual good.