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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The heart of man is naturally not only unfit, but contrary and opposite unto the way of believing of heavenly Truth; And by this it's plain, Faith is the gift of God, because man hath not only an unfitness, but a contrary ⟨p. 598⟩repugnancy to the things of God; Therefore 1 Cor. 4.14. the natural man is said not to receive the things of God neither can be, both the act and the power is denied to him; Therefore when Peter made that Confession of faith, Thou art the Son of God, Christ tells him, Flesh and blood had not revealed that to him, Mat. 16.17. Therefore the Pharisees though they heard so much of Christ, and saw all his Miracles, yet they derided and opposed Christ, They did not hear his Word because they were not of God, as Christ told them, Job. 8.47. Know then as in respect of gross sin thou wouldst be like a Cain, a Judas, if God did not keep thee, so also in respect of doctrine thou wouldst be the vilest Atheist, or the most blasphemous heretic that ever was, if God did not enlighten and confirm thee.
3. The heart of man is naturally not only unfit, but contrary and opposite unto the way of believing of heavenly Truth; And by this it's plain, Faith is the gift of God, because man hath not only an unfitnesse, but a contrary ⟨p. 598⟩repugnancy to the things of God; Therefore 1 Cor. 4.14. the natural man is said not to receive the things of God neither can be, both the act and the power is denied to him; Therefore when Peter made that Confession of faith, Thou art the Son of God, Christ tels him, Flesh and bloud had not revealed that to him, Mat. 16.17. Therefore the Pharisees though they heard so much of Christ, and saw all his Miracles, yet they derided and opposed Christ, They did not hear his Word because they were not of God, as Christ told them, Job. 8.47. Know then as in respect of grosse sinne thou wouldst be like a Cain, a Judas, if God did not keep thee, so also in respect of doctrine thou wouldst be the vilest Atheist, or the most blasphemous heretique that ever was, if God did not enlighten and confirm thee.