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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 22: Of Christs finishing the work he undertook, with the End and Properties of it, and the…
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4. The necessity of this working, and working so perfectly, and that doth appear from the justice of God and purity of the Law, and partly from our impotency,1 from the justice of God, for that being infinite nothing could satisfy him but what was of infinite worth; It would have been injustice in God to have given us heaven otherwise, and then partly from the holiness of the Law, that admits of no works but perfect, pure, and holy; Therefore to say God accepts of imperfect holiness, and accounts that as complete which is not so, is to attribute false judgement unto God, and lastly our own impotency proclaimeth the necessity of Christs perfection, for take us as we are in our selves, so we are nothing but sin and a curse; In stead of working Gods work we do the devils, and take us as regenerated then though we be partakers of Gods grace, yet the remnant of corruption within us doth stain and infect all that we do.
4. The necessity of this working, and working so perfectly, and that doth appear from the justice of God and purity of the Law, and partly from our impotency,1 from the justice of God, for that being infinite nothing could satisfie him but what was of infinite worth; It would have been injustice in God to have given us heaven otherwise, and then partly from the holinesse of the Law, that admits of no works but perfect, pure, and holy; Therefore to say God accepts of imperfect holinesse, and accounts that as compleat which is not so, is to attribute false judgement unto God, and lastly our own impotency proclaimeth the necessity of Christs perfection, for take us as we are in our selves, so we are nothing but sin and a curse; In stead of working Gods work we do the devils, and take us as regenerated then though we be partakers of Gods grace, yet the remnant of corruption within us doth staine and infect all that we do.
- 14. Consider the necessity of his work.