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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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Fifthly, Because no works we do can be perfect, hence at the end of our days, 1when we look over all our former life, we may not put any trust or confidence in what we have done; Paul that knew nothing by himself, yet was not thereby justified: The Pharisees are condemned for this, that they trusted in their own righteousness, yea, the whole Nation of the Jews, that they went about to establish their own righteousness, and would not submit to the righteousness of Christ, Rom. 10. Though self-righteousness be not a gross scandalous sin, making men abominable and noisome in the world, yet it is as damnable and as dangerous as those sins, yea, more damnable, partly because it overthroweth all the principles of being cured, None being more miserable then those who are so, yet do not feel or think so; This is like the Psalmists arrow that destroyeth at mid-day, and then partly because it doth so immediately oppose Christ revealed as a Mediator and Saviour, for they that trust in their own righteousness are a Christ, are a Saviour to themselves.
Fifthly, Because no works we do can be perfect, hence at the end of our daies, 1when we look over all our former life, we may not put any trust or confidence in what we have done; Paul that knew nothing by himself, yet was not thereby justified: The Pharisees are condemned for this, that they trusted in their own righteousnesse, yea, the whole Nation of the Jews, that they went about to establish their own righteousnesse, and would not submit to the righteousnesse of Christ, Rom. 10. Though self-righteousnesse be not a grosse scandalous sinne, making men abominable and no•some in the world, yet it is as damnable and as dangerous as those sins, yea, more damnable, partly because it overthroweth all the principles of being cured, None being more miserable then those who are so, yet do not feel or think so; This is like the Psalmists arrow that destroieth at mid-day, and then partly because it doth so immediatly oppose Christ revealed as a Mediatour and Saviour, for they that trust in their own righteousnesse are a Christ, are a Saviour to themselves.