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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.
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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.
Doct. That the truly godly are Gods people in a peculiar manner;1 They have an endeared propriety in God, They may say with David, Psa. 119.94. I am thine, save me; This propriety is the ground of all comfort, of all boldness at the Throne of grace; I am thine, pardon me; I am thine, sanctify me; I am thine, leave me not.
Doct. That the truly godly are Gods people in a peculiar manner;1 They have an indeared propriety in God, They may say with Dauid, Psa. 119.94