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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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3. We are his new creature and a spiritual Creation; Thus he is said to create us, and we are said to be his Children born of him; We are Gal. 2.10. called his workmanship created to good works, so that in this particular the people of God are remarkably his, They have his Image put upon them, They have a divi•• nature bestowed upon them, It's he that hath made us not we our selves, even […] this sense Lev. 20.26. That ye should be mine severed from all other, oh then know if there be no more in thee then what is in the world, or what thou hast by nature, thou art not yet the Lords; Doth thy nature, thy frame of heart discover an interest in God, then thou mayest take comfort, there are many who desire to be the Lords by Redemption but not by Sanctification; They would have Christs blood theirs, but not his Spirit.
3. We are his new creature and a spiritual Creation; Thus he is said to create us, and we are said to be his Children born of him; We are Gal. 2.10. called his •orkmanship created to good works, so that in this particular the people of God are ramarkably his, They have his Image put upon them, They have a divi•• nature bestowed upon them, It's he that hath made us not we our selves, even 〈…〉 this sence Lev. 20.26. That ye should be mine severed from all other, oh then know if there be no more in thee then what is in the world, or what thou hast by nature, thou art not yet the Lords; Doth thy nature, thy frame of heart discover an interest in God, then thou maist take comfort, there are many who desire to be the Lords by Redemption but not by Sanctification; They would have Christs bloud theirs, but not his Spirit.