A57140:65
Gods fidelity, the churches safety opened in a sermon preached before the lord major,…
Gods fidelity, the churches safety opened in a sermon preached before the lord major, aldermen, and common-council, at Lawrence-Jury Church, on Wednesday Septem. 15, 1658 : being a day of humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds.Gods fidelity, the churches safety opened in a sermon preached before the lord major, aldermen, and common-councel, at Lawrence-Jury Church, on Wednesday Septem. 15, 1658 : being a day of humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds.
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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3. Precepts and Conditions are used as the vehicula of the grace promised. Of our selves we can do nothing of those duties unto which Promises are annexed, for all our sufficiency is of God, who worketh all our works for us, 2 Cor. 3.5. But the Precepts of the Word are the usual Instruments, by which he worketh those things in us, which he requireth of us, Rom. 10.17.
4 Conditional Propositions do not imply that our performances work upon God to do what he had said, as if the performance of duty were only ours, and then the performance of promise alone his: But they intimate the order and connection which the Lord hath set amongst his own gifts, some whereof he hath appointed to be antecedent dispositions and preparations towards others consequent upon them: He that believeth shall be saved, this is a conditional promise, Faith the condition, Salvation the Promise; But we may not so understand it as if Faith were only ours, and Salvation alone his. But Faith is one Gift of God, Antecedent to Salvation which is another Gift of God.
4 Conditionall Propositions do not imply that our performances work upon God to do what he had said, as if the performance of duty were only ours, and then the performance of promise alone his: But they intimate the order and connexion which the Lord hath set amongst his own gifts, some whereof he hath appointed to be antecedent dispositions and preparations towards others consequent upon them: He that believeth shall be saved, this is a conditional promise, Faith the condition, Salvation the Promise; But we may not so understand it as if Faith were only ours, and Salvation alone his. But Faith is one Gift of God, Antecedent to Salvation which is another Gift of God.