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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To open this Consider the distinction before premised,1 That we may be said to be the Lords, either generally by right of Creation and his absolute Sovereignty; or 2. Peculiarly in a gracious manner: In the former sense all mankind is said to be in Gods hand as the clay in the hand of the Potter. so that if God from wise and most righteous ends have chosen some and left others in their damnable estate, if we cannot say that all are by Gods Election and Christs by the execution of it, yet we have no cause to grudge or repine, because all are Gods, to dispose of at his pleasure; For although his holy and righteous nature is the cause that he cannot do any thing that is evil or unjust, yet the dominion and sovereignty he hath may make him dispose of all things as he pleaseth, and if the Apostle in matters of Election and Reprobation doth urge this to stifle mans presumption, how much more may it hold in inferior things, if God deny thee this or that mercy and giveth it to others, who art thou (O man) that arguest against God? We are his to be disposed of as he pleaseth:
To open this Consider the distinction before premised,1 That we may be said to be the Lords, either generally by right of Creation and his absolute Soveraignty; or 2. Peculiarly in a gracious manner: In the former sence all mankinde is said to be in Gods hand as the clay in the hand of the Potter. so that if God from wise and most righteous ends have chosen some and left others in their damnable estate, if we cannot say that all are by Gods Election and Christs by the execution of it, yet we have no cause to grudge or repine, because all are Gods, to dispose of at his pleasure; For although his holy and righteous nature is the cause that he cannot do any thing that is evil or unjust, yet the dominion and soveraignty he hath may make him dispose of all things as he pleaseth, and if the Apostle in matters of Election and Reprobation doth urge this to stifle mans presumption, how much more may it hold in inferiour things, if God deny thee this or that mercy and giveth it to others, who art thou (O man) that arguest against God? We are his to be disposed of as he pleaseth:
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