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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Fourthly, When we say it's Instrumental to Sanctification, we are to distinguish of instrumental causes: For there are Physical and Natural Instruments, which work by an inherent and natural power, and there are Moral Instruments, which work by the sole institution and appointment of another. Now the Word of God is not instrumental to Sanctification in the former, but in the later way. The Word doth not by any inherent virtue and efficacy in a natural manner purify the heart, but by Gods appointment and his voluntary co-operation, when and where he will; For if it did work thus naturally, then wheresoever the Word is preached, it would sanctify, it would heal: As the fire wherever it is, in one Country as well as in another, it doth burn, but experience doth confute this, Are there not two hearing the Word of God, the one is sanctified, the other not? At the same Sermon one is humbled, made tender; The other is more obstinate and hardened: Whence comes all this diversity under the Word preached, but because it is not a natural instrument?
1Fourthly, When we say it's Instrumentall to Sanctification, we are to distinguish of instrumental causes: For there are Physical and Natural Instruments, which work by an inherent and natural power, and there are Moral Instruments, which work by the sole institution and appointment of another. Now the Word of God is not instrumental to Sanctification in the former, but in the later way. The Word doth not by any inherent vertue and efficacy in a natural manner purifie the heart, but by Gods appointment and his voluntary co-operation, when and where he will; For if it did work thus naturally, then wheresoever the Word is preached, it would sanctifie, it would heal: As the fire whereever it is, in one Countrey as well as in another, it doth burn, but experience doth confute this, Are there not two hearing the Word of God, the one is sanctified, the other not? At the same Sermon one is humbled, made tender; The other is more obstinate and hardened: Whence comes all this diversity under the Word preached, but because it is not a natural instrument?
- 1Instrumental Causes are physical, natural or moral.Instrumentall Causes are physical, natural or moral.