CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Lastly, Here is the glorious visibility of Christs perfect working in his resurrection, ascension, and now sitting at the right hand of God in glory, which could not have been had not Christ perfected his work, for what is the reason the devils and damned in hell are detained to Eternity in those prisons of darkness; Is it not because of their insufficiency to perfect their sufferings, to make them adequate to Gods justice, to bring as great glory to God as ever sin did evil or dishonour; In that therefore Christ hath overcome the grave and the bonds of death, we have an infallible evidence of his perfect working.

¹Lastly, Here is the glorious visibility of Christs perfect working in his resurrection, ascension, and now sitting at the right hand of God in glory, which could not have been had not Christ perfected his work, for what is the reason the devils and damned in hell are detained to Eternity in those prisons of darknesse; Is it not because of their insufficiency to perfect their sufferings, to make them adequate to Gods justice, to bring as great glory to God as ever sin did evil or dishonour; In that therefore Christ hath overcome the grave and the bonds of death, we have an infallible evidence of his perfect working.

1. 15. The visibility of it.

¹Use of Instruction, how dangerous all those doctrines are which proclaim free-will, merit, under any notion whatsoever; As they give that to man which belongs not to him, so they take that from Christ which is due, yet this is a most natural sin in all, either in whole or in part to take off from Christ, not to be beholding to him only, God hath commanded us to come out of our sins by repentance, and our own works by faith, and the Apostle doth not only exclude sins, but even working also from Abraham's Justification,