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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 23: Of a Holy Working Life, the Excellency, Equity, and Necessity thereof in order to Glory.
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12. It's our duty to work because God hath made them the necessary way to walk in, if we will be saved; Without holiness no man shall see God; Labour for the meat that perisheth not: Hence if we consider every gracious work of patience, love, meekness, we shall see blessedness is promised to them, Not that these justify, only the person justified cannot be without them; They are the media ordinata, ordained mean, in the use whereof we are to arrive at eternal happiness; It's faith only that receiveth Christ and his righteousness, yet this faith cannot be separated from an holy walking: It's the eye only that seeth, yet the eye cannot be separated from the other parts of the body, and thus the Apostle doth immediately oppose Rom. 4. believing, working grace, and works in respect of Justification, yet he doth at the same time press the Children of God to all holiness and the fruits of righteousness.
12. It's our duty to work because God hath made them the necessary way to walk in, if we will be saved; Without holinesse no man shall see God; Labour for the meat that perisheth not: Hence if we consider every gracious work of patience, love, meeknesse, we shall see blessednesse is promised to them, Not that these justifie, only the person justified cannot be without them; They are the media ordinata, ordained mean, in the use whereof we are to arrive at eternal happinesse; It's faith only that receiveth Christ and his righteousnesse, yet this faith cannot be separated from an holy walking: It's the eye only that seeth, yet the eye cannot be separated from the other parts of the body, and thus the Apostle doth immediatly oppose Rom. 4. beleeving, working grace, and works in respect of Justification, yet he doth at the same time presse the Children of God to all holinesse and the fruits of righteousnesse.
- 1II. God hath made them the necessary way to walk in if we will be saved.