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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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Reasons. 1 First, Because the principle of Regeneration and seed of grace is universal, It doth seminally contain all kinds and parts of grace in it; As all seeds, even of an Oak, or the tallest Trees, though never so little, yet virtually contain all those great branches, and let them have time to grow, they will diffuse themselves into a vast compass; Grace is the Image of God, and that inferreth a resemblance in lineaments and parts, an hand, or a foot is not an Image, So then seeing that in Regeneration there is infused the habit or principles of all grace, no wonder if there be an Inclination to all, yet not so, but that they may be carried out ⟨p. 203⟩more readily and willing'y to some rather then other, even as though all men by reason of original corruption have a Fountain of all wickedness, yet one may be carried out more propensely to one sin rather then another; The Sea may break out of one bank sooner then in another.
Reasons. 1 First, Because the principle of Regeneration and seed of grace is universall, It doth seminally contain all kindes and parts of grace in it; As all seeds, even of an Oak, or the tallest Trees, though never so little, yet virtually contain all those great branches, and let them have time to grow, they will diffuse themselves into a vast compasse; Grace is the Image of God, and that inferreth a resemblance in lineaments and parts, an hand, or a foot is not an Image, So then seeing that in Regeneration there is infused the habit or principles of all grace, no wonder if there be an Inclination to all, yet not so, but that they may be carried out ⟨p. 203⟩more readily and willing'y to some rather then other, even as though all men by reason of original corruption have a Fountain of all wickednesse, yet one may be carried out more propensely to one sinne rather then another; The Sea may break out of one bank sooner then in another.
Reasons. 2 Secondly, There is the same authority forbidding or commanding in all; As the Apostle James argueth,