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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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As 1. There is a difference of those who hold our Election, and so Christs Death to be upon the foresight of something in us, Some are more gross then others, For there are some that hold a man is Elected to glory upon the foresight of his cooperation with the grace of God, as a true merit deserving this Election, so that with them God did behold who by his free will would improve the offer of grace, and for this as a meritorious cause they say God did Elect them unto Eternal Glory: But this is so highly injurious to the Grace of God, that though some Papists have maintained it, yet Bellarmine Valentia and other Jesuits wholly disclaim it at least in words, making no other cause of predestination in respect of all the effects of it, but the sole and mere good pleasure of God.
As 1. There is a difference of those who hold our Election, and so Christs Death to be upon the foresight of something in us, Some are more grosse then others, For there are some that hold a man is Elected to glory upon the foresight of his cooperation with the grace of God, as a true merit deserving this Election, so that with them God did behold who by his free will would improve the offer of grace, and for this as a meritorious cause they say God did Elect them unto Eternal Glory: But this is so highly injurious to the Grace of God, that though some Papists have maintained it, yet Bellarmine Valentia and other Jesuites wholly disclaim it at least in words, making no other cause of predestination in respect of all the effects of it, but the sole and meer good pleasure of God.
2. There are others, and they say the foresight of the good or better use of our free-will then others is not a meritorious but a moving cause with God of our Election to Happiness: So that our Faith and Holiness though they were not a meriting Cause, yet were a moving Cause of our predestination, but this is also too grossly repugnant and contradictory to Scripture.
2. There are others, and they say the foresight of the good or better use of our free-will then others is not a meritorious but a moving cause with God of our Election to Happinesse: So that our Faith and Holinesse though they were not a meriting Cause, yet were a moving Cause of our predestination, but this is also too grosly repugnant and contradictory to Scripture.