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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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1Fifthly, They are willing because they know no Obedience is accepted of with God, unless it be willing; It's not thy faith, thy humiliation, thy zeal, unless there be willingness and delight in it, that God accepts of, Isa. 1.29. If ye be willing and obedient, so God accepts of a willing mind: Woe be to me (saith Paul) if I preach the Gospel, and not willingly but of constraint, 1 Cor. 9.6. Though he did preach it yet if not willingly there is a Woe to him; Oh then it's no wonder if the people of God are so glad and cheerful within them in the work of the Lord, otherwise their work would lose their reward, and they the Crown of Glory; Think of this then when you find the wheels of your Chariots move heavily, Thou art happily thinking how to put off truth or duty, or thou wishest it over, say this unwillingness marreth all, God will not accept of a Sacrifice unless offered in fire: Say upon all thy dead and formal duties, these are not duties, God looks not upon them as so: Non operari & non esse are all one before God in some respects.
1Fifthly, They are willing because they know no Obedience is accepted of with God, unlesse it be willing; It's not thy faith, thy humiliation, thy zeal, unlesse there be willingnesse and delight in it, that God accepts of, Isa. 1.29. If ye be willing and obedient, so God accepts of a willing minde: Wo be to me (saith Paul) if I preach the Gospel, and not willingly but of constraint, 1 Cor. 9.6. Though he did preach it yet if not willingly there is a Woe to him; Oh then it's no wonder if the people of God are so glad and chearfull within them in the work of the Lord, otherwise their work would lose their reward, and they the Crown of Glory; Think of this then when you finde the wheels of your Chariots move heavily, Thou art happily thinking how to put off truth or duty, or thou wishest it over, say this unwillingnesse marreth all, God will not aceept of a Sacrifice unlesse offered in fire: Say upon all thy dead and formal duties, these are not duties, God looks not upon them as so: Non operari & non esse are all one before God in some respects.