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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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Sermon 106: Of both the Moving Cause and Effects of Election and of Christs Prayer and Death; Again…
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That Christ died not, and so we were not Elected because we will believe, 1but our belief is the effect and fruit of Christs death and our Election: Our Faith is not a condition upon which our Election or Christs Death stands suspended and indeterminate, but these do make us infallibly and effectually to believe in time: There are two common Opinions, The one holding, That God from all Eternity knew who would believe in time, and persevere therein, and thereupon they were Elected, and Christ died for us; This way go Arminians and others; But 2. The Orthodox, they affirm that God did from all Eternity choose some out of the corrupt mass to Eternal glory, and for this end to give them Faith and holiness as the means thereunto; So that God did not elect us because we did or would believe, but that we might believe, we believe because we are Elected, not Elected because we believe: This Doctrine is very useful because it tends to humble and debase man, and wholly to exalt the grace of God, and therefore the more diligently to be confirmed because of late so greatly opposed:
That Christ died not, and so we were not Elected because we will beleeve, 1but our beleef is the effect and fruit of Christs death and our Election: Our Faith is not a condition upon which our Election or Christs Death stands suspended and indeterminate, but these do make us infallibly and effectually to beleeve in time: There are two common Opinions, The one holding, That God from all Eternity knew who would beleeve in time, and persevere therein, and thereupon they were Elected, and Christ died for us; This way go Arminians and others; But 2. The Orthodox, they affirm that God did from all Eternity choose some out of the corrupt masse to Eternall glory, and for this end to give them Faith and holinesse as the means thereunto; So that God did not elect us because we did or would beleeve, but that we might beleeve, we beleeve because we are Elected, not Elected because we beleeve: This Doctrine is very useful because it tends to humble and debase man, and wholly to exalt the grace of God, and therefore the more diligently to be confirmed because of late so greatly opposed:
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