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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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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.
3. There are those who refine it more subtly, and that is, That God did foresee who would believe and persevere therein to Death, and such are peremptorily chosen to Eternal Life, not that their Faith or Perseverance is any merit or moving Cause, but a Conditio sine quâ non, without which God would not choose such to happiness, so that (say they) it's not for any intrinsical. Dignity or excellent worth in Faith, but because of the many possible ways and means to Salvation; God appoints this way of believing rather then another, and thus the Arminians, Only they acknowledge Holiness of Life, and Obedience to God to be thus a Condition foreseen as well as Faith, though they would seem utterly to deny it.
3. There are those who refine it more subtlely, and that is, That God did foresee who would beleeve and persevere therein to Death, and such are peremptorily chosen to Eternall Life, not that their Faith or Perseverance is any merit or moving Cause, but a Conditio sine quâ non, without which God would not choose such to happinesse, so that (say they) it's not for any intrinsecall. Dignity or excellent worth in Faith, but because of the many possible waies and means to Salvation; God appoints this way of beleeving rather then another, and thus the Arminians, Only they acknowledge Holinesse of Life, and Obedience to God to be thus a Condition foreseen as well as Faith, though they would seem utterly to deny it.