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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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4. We are the Lords by Covenant and by Promise; and this is no mean foundation of our propriety in him, The Promise runneth, I will be their God and they shall be my people, Jer. 31.33. We have Gods Word as well as his work causing us to be his, and in this sense God is said to be the God of Abraham, and the God of his Faithful Seed, viz. by a gracious promise; This is that which may bear up the heart, how often do we by our sins and infirmities break off our propriety and lose our interest as much as lieth in us, If there were no gracious promise of God, that for his Names sake and words sake we shall be his, then all those uncomfortable Arminian Positions would take place, that we may be the Lords people to day and the devils slaves to morrow; Thus our propriety would be mutable every hour, and as our lives so our hopes and comforts would be like a vapour and a bubble, but we are children of the promise, Gal. 3. And as that gave Isaac life when the barren womb had no power, so it's the promise of God begins and continueth our spiritual life; It's for his truths sake that sin and Satan shall not quite overwhelm us, and how comfortable is this to plead, Lord, we are thine, not by any merits of our own, not by any gracious works of ours, but by thy promise; We do not believe, love thee, or persevere, and therefore are thine, but because we are thine therefore we believe and persevere.
4. We are the Lords by Covenant and by Promise; and this is no mean foundation of our propriety in him, The Promise runneth, I will be their God and they shall be my people, Jer. 31.33. We have Gods Word as well as his work causing us to be his, and in this sence God is said to be the God of Abraham, and the God of his Faithfull Seed, viz. by a gracious promise; This is that which may bear up the heart, how often do we by our sins and infirmities break off our propriety and lose our interest as much as lieth in us, If there were no gracious promise of God, that for his Names sake and words sake we shall be his, then all those uncomfortable Arminian Positions would take place, that we may be the Lords people to day and the devils slaves to morrow; Thus our propriety would be mutable every hour, and as our lives so our hopes and comforts would be like a vapour and a bubble, but we are children of the promise,