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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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1Obs. That it's a sure character and property of the children of God to be a willing ready people in obedience; They are not as hypocrites kept from sin by constraint, merely from a principle of fear within, but Psa. 110. They are willingnesses in the day of Gods power.
1Obs. That it's a sure character and property of the children of God to be a willing ready people in obedience; They are not as hypocrites kept from sinne by constraint, meerly from a principle of fear within, but Psa. 110. They are willingnesses in the day of Gods power.
- 1Doct. It's a sure character of Gods people to be a willing people.
To explain this a little,
1First, There may be the presence of dullness and unwillingness sometimes in the Children of God, but this is not reigning, nor is it habitually consented to, but resisted and with much agony prayed against; There is no garden but hath some of this weed in it; No gold but some of this dross; No godly man but now and then hath wearisomeness and unwillingness to holy duties seizing upon him; Thus we read the Church when Christ knocked at the door, though he had stood all night, and his locks were wet with the dew, yet the Church out ⟨p. 205⟩