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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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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:
I therefore pass on to the effect of both these divine causes of our Salvation; There was you heard the efficient cause Gods Election, the meritorious cause Christ, and now we have the effect of these, which is by way of sign to describe who they are that are the Lords, and thus given to Christ, for they being hidden causes, and every one apt to pretend to them; This is the differencing and evidencing mark, They keep the Word of God, So that by this we see who are truly and indeed given of God to Christ, even such as keep his Word; He doth not say, that heareth it or remembers it, or that understands it, but that keeps it; The Scripture hath equivalent expressions to this, sometimes