CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

In the 5th, He proceedeth to an actual renouncing of every thing but Christ; He seeth there is no remedy in the world for him but by Christ; He abhorreth all those Doctrines and practises in Religion which he did put confidence in as if they could save him, Phil. 3. You see this method in Paul, when once his eyes were opened, then all the privileges that were formerly counted gain, he looked upon them as loss, yea, as dung in comparison of the Knowledge of Christ: Now certainly this is a great work of Gods Spirit, not only to make a man renounce his sins but his works of Righteousness also, for this undid the Jews, Rom. 10. They sought to establish their own Righteousness, and so would not submit themselves to that of Christ: In Popery what is the reigning error but that men are not taught to go out of the works they do, and believe in Christ only, Do they not expressly plead for some co-partnership in the work of Mediation, and is not also this poison sucked down every where in all mens hearts, who is there till God hath humbled him over and over again, that flieth wholly to Christ? Nay, even in a godly man what is that that keeps the soar so raw, and the heart so unquiet? Is is not because he would not be beholding to Christ only? Therefore when a man is thus fitted by the Spirit of God as to see every thing is a rush, a reed to lean upon but Christ; Though I could weep a Sea of tears, and those tears turn into blood, though I had all the grace of Men and Angels, yet it would not reconcile me to God. Then is he upon the Confines of Justification. Therefore

In the 5th, He proceedeth to an actual renouncing of every thing but Christ; He seeth there is no remedy in the world for him but by Christ; He abhor•eth all those Doctrines and practises in Religion which he did put confidence in as if they could save him, Phil. 3. You see this method in Paul, when once his eyes were opened, then all the priviledges that were formerly counted gain, he looked upon them as losse, yea, as dung in comparison of the Knowledge of Christ: Now certainly this is a great work of Gods Spirit, not only to make a man renounce his sinnes but his works of Righteousnesse also, for this undid the Jews,