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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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As there is practical Idolatry, so there is doctrinal Idolatry, viz. When we attribute that to our own power or free will which belongs only to God. Thus all those proud and arrogant opinions which advance free-will, make it able to work with God in conversion, this is to derogate from God, he shall not then be the God from whom every good and perfect gift doth proceed. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 8.2. saith, To us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and to him are all things, so that God is there made the first cause of all the good things we have, and the ultimate end to which we do refer all. Certainly if it be a forsaking of God to set up any Authors for temporal mercies and temporal salvations, then much more for spiritual; for which is greater, the work of nature or the work of grace? Therefore let us walk humbly, and because he is the only true God, from whom are all things, and to whom, let us say, Not to our own power, but thy grace, be all glory given.
As there is practicall Idolatry, so there is doctrinall Idolatry, viz. When we attribute that to our own power or free will which belongs only to God. Thus all those proud and arrogant opinions which advance free-will, make it able to work with God in conversion, this is to derogate from God, he shall not then be the God from whom every good and perfect gift doth proceed. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 8.2. saith, To us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and to him are all things, so that God is there made the first cause of all the good things we have, and the ultimate end to which we do referre all. Certainly if it be a forsaking of God to set up any Authors for temporall mercies and temporall salvations, then much more for spirituall; for which is greater, the work of nature or the work of grace? Therefore let us walk humbly, and because he is the onely true God, from whom are all things, and to whom, let us say, Not to our own power, but thy grace, be all glory given.