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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 88
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The third cause is, The over-greediness and importunate minding of our earthly 1businesses. We rise with the world in our heart, and go to bed with it in our heart, so that we never set time apart seriously to think, how it is with us. Hence come those constant delays and procrastinations, promising our selves we will after such and such businesses are over, set our selves to the examination of our ways; but still the work is not done, our days pass away, our hearts grow more hardened and indisposed every day, till at last death unexpectedly seizeth upon us, and then we would gladly have oil, when it is too late, then with Isaiah we cry out for a blessing with tears and bitterness, but we come too late. How comfortable on the other side is it for a godly man dying, to say his soul hath been set in order long before, he hath not his evidences now to seek? The knowing of his heart, hath been all his study in his life time, Satan can object no new thing, which he hath not already thought upon.
The third cause is, The over-greedinesse and importunate minding of our earthly 1businesses. We rise with the world in our heart, and go to bed with it in our heart, so that we never set time apart seriously to think, how it is with us. Hence come those constant delayes and procrastinations, promising our selves we will after such and such businesses are over, set our selves to the examination of our wayes; but still the work is not done, our dayes passe away, our hearts grow more hardned and indisposed every day, till at last death unexpectedly seizeth upon us, and then we would gladly have oil, when it is too late, then with Esai we cry out for a blessing with tears and bitterness, but we come too late. How comfortable on the other side is it for a godly man dying, to say his soul hath been set in order long before, he hath not his evidences now to seeke? The knowing of his heart, hath beene all his study in his life time, Satan can object no new thing, which he hath not already thought upon.
- 13. Carking carefulness.