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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 32: Of the peculiar Propriety Gods People have in him and he in them.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. By right of Creation and dominion which he hath thereby, and so all things are his, Psa. 69.11. Both the reprobate and the godly are his in this sense, it's impossible but that every creature should be his because he cannot alienate his dominion and property
1. By right of Creation and dominion which he hath thereby, and so all things are his, Psa. 69.11. Both the reprobate and the godly are his in this sence, it's impossible but that every creature should be his because he cannot alienate his dominion and property
2. A people may be said to be his by an outward dispensation of the Covenant of grace, Thus the people of the Jews are all of them called his people, because they were under an outward administration of grace, when other Nations of the world were not so.
Lastly, A people are his by Election and the gracious effects thereof, and so only those that are the true Disciples of Christ are his, and in this sense it's said, Thine they are and they have kept thy Word, which cannot be understood of Judas, for he perfidiously forsook Christ.
Lastly, A people are his by Election and the gracious effects thereof, and so only those that are the true Disciples of Christ are his, and in this sence it's said, Thine they are and they have kept thy Word, which cannot be understood of Judas, for he perfidiously forsook Christ.