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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 XXXIII. The truly Godly man only is obedient to Gods Word: Or, The Great Character of a Christian.
SERMON XXXIII. The truly Godly man onely is obedient to Gods Word: Or, The Great Character of a Christian.
JOH. 17.6. And they have kept thy Word.
WE pass over the second description which is Gods giving of some of mankind to Christ as a Mediator, so that they are his trust, and it lieth upon his faithfulness to procure salvation for them, Only it's good to consider that within six Verses he doth thrice use this expression, They are given him by the Father, for this layeth the Axe to the very root of Arminianism; It's not their free-will, nor their good improvement of the means of grace, but Gods gracious giving of them to Christ that makes them have an Interest in salvation, and the phrase doth imply that there is a stint number and defined of such; There cannot be more or less, so that the Arminian Dagon must needs fall before this Ark, but this is spoken to already:
WE passe over the second description which is Gods giving of some of mankinde to Christ as a Mediatour, so that they are his trust, and it lieth upon his faithfulnesse to procure salvation for them, Only it's good to consider that within six Verses he doth thrice use this expression, They are given him by the Father, for this laieth the Axe to the very root of Arminianism; It's not their free-will, nor their good improvement of the means of grace, but Gods gracious giving of them to Christ that makes them have an Interest in salvation, and the phrase doth imply that there is a stint number and defined of such; There cannot be more or lesse, so that the Arminian Dagon must needs fall before this Ark, but this is spoken to already: