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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 105: Of Justifying Faith, That it is a fiducial Recumbency on Christ.
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1. From the names and Titles that believing in Christ hath, which do evidently denote more then a mere intellectual assent unto the promises, as true; They imply some cordial motions of the soul; The Names are these [Greek or Hebrew], which doth signify a confidence of the heart, and that which doth embolden the soul in the presence of God, yea, to this believing there is attributed [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 5.1. Phil 3.3. This boasting must need be more then a bare apprehension in the mind; It's like Aaron's oil that descends from the head to other places also, [Greek or Hebrew] Rom. 4 21. This is also emphatical, some make the word to be from the Sails of Ships when filled with the Wind, which carry the Ship away speedily; Thus the heart of man that lay grovelled, and could not move, when believing is mightily carried on in all duties; It is called [Greek or Hebrew] often, Heb. 11.1. Heb. 3.14. that denoteth the things we believe to have such a subsistence in our souls as if we were no longer our selves, but the thing believed, as Paul said, I no longer live but Christ within me, Gal. 2.20. So this Faith in Christ doth as it were incarnate the Promises, and transubstantiate them into the believer; Another word is [Greek or Hebrew] Heb 4.16. Let us come with confidence; Indeed Ephes. 3. Confidence or boldness is made an effect of faith, but confidence could not be an effect of faith if faith had not this in its nature; As the Soul could not produce rational acts if it were not essentially rational, so neither could faith put a man upon fiducial acts, if it self were not fiducial; Again this believing is called [Greek or Hebrew] boldness or confidence, Mat. 9.2. and so Varinus makes [Greek or Hebrew], to be bold on a man: By these Titles then which the Scripture giveth, Faith in Christ we see what a powerful operation it hath upon the heart, What a Faith of spiritual miracles (as I may say) justifying Faith is, and therefore know that thy