Question 137
Section 5: The third Part is of Man’s Thankfulness
Why will God then have his Law to be so exactly and severely preached seeing there is no Man in this life able to keep it?
First, That all our life time we more & morea acknowledg the great proneness of our Nature to Sin, and so much the moreb greedily desire remission of Sins, and Righteousness in Christ. Secondly, That we be doing of this always, and always thinking of it, and so implore and crave of the Father thec Grace of his Holy Spirit, whereby we may daily more and more be renewed to the Image and likeness of God, until at length after we are departed out of this life we may joyfully attain unto that Perfection which is promised unto us.
Why will God then have his Law to be so exactly and severely preached seeing there is no Man in this life able to keep it?
First, That all our life time we more & morea acknowledge the great proneness of our Nature to Sin, and so much the moreb greedily desire remission of Sins, and Righteousness in Christ. Secondly, That we be doing of this always, and always thinking of it, and so implore and crave of the Father thec Grace of his Holy Spirit, whereby we may daily more and more be renewed to the Image and likeness of God, until at length after we are departed out of this life we may joyfully attain unto that Perfection which is promised unto us.
a. 1 John 1:9; Psalm 22:5
1 John 1:9
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 22:5
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
22:5 They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
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b. Romans 7:24
Romans 7:24
7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
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c. 1 Corinthians 9:24,&c; Philippians 3:12–14
1 Corinthians 9:24–27
9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize. 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable. 9:26 Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air. 9:27 No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Philippians 3:12–14
3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3:12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 3:14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
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