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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.
Sermon 105: Of Christs Love and Care of every one of his before they had a being.
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.
1. There is remarkable freeness in it of grace, if positively and absolutely considered: For what could there be in us to move God to this mercy, when we could not think, or cry, or pray, or do any thing for our good, even then God set his love upon us? It was nothing in us, seeing we were in the womb of nothing.
1. There is remarkable freenesse in it of grace, if positively and absolutely considered: For what could there be in us to move God to this mercy, when we could not think, or cry, or pray, or do any thing for our good, even then God set his love upon us? It was nothing in us, seeing we were in the womb of nothing.
2. This freeness is aggravated, if comparatively considered, for it's the grace of God that makes some to believe, and leaveth others in their natural corruption. The Apostle considered this discriminating love of God to Jacob and Esau, Rom. 9. before they had done either good or evil: Oh then sit and admire the depth of grace, the unsearchable riches of grace! for what art thou to so many learned and noble men in the world, to so many of thy own kindred and family that God hath past by, yet took compassion on thee? Didst thou not lie equally in the same mass of corruption and bondage to all sin?
3. There is the Eternity of this love, it was before the beginning of the world: So that we cannot imagine any moment of time, wherein Gods thoughts were not upon thee.