CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 3: Showeth how prevalent the Prayers are that are poured out to God as a Father, And what…Sermon 3: Sheweth how prevalent the Praiers are that are poured out to God as a Father, And what…

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Lastly, The Meditation of God as a Father may wonderfully support under all afflictions. They are the corrections of a Father, not the punishments of a Judge, and the Apostle argueth the great reasonableness of bearing Gods afflictions, seeing we endure the chastisement of our Fathers according to the flesh, Heb. 12.9, 10. where the Apostle shows that a good child, though chastened by his Father; giveth reverence to him, why then should not we rather obey God, who is the Father of spirits, and that from the end of God, he afflicts for our profit, and we live by these chastisements; Hence it's the devils great temptation to embitter this cup of affliction as much as he can; To let them think God is not their Father, and if he were a Father he would never lay such a load upon them, and all this to stir up impatience and discontent within them: Thus you see what mighty effects this consideration of God as a Father should produce in us,

Lastly, The Meditation of God as a Father may wonderfully support under all afflictions. They are the corrections of a Father, not the punishments of a Judge, and the Apostle argueth the great reasonablenesse of bearing Gods afflictions, seeing we endure the chastisement of our Fathers according to the flesh, Heb. 12.9, 10. where the Apostle shews that a good childe, though chastened by his Father; giveth reverence to him, why then should not we rather obey God, who is the Father of spirits, and that from the end of God, he afflicts for our profit, and we live by these chastisements; Hence it's the devils great temptation to imbitter this cup of affliction as much as he can; To let them think God is not their Father, and if he were a Father he would never lay such a load upon them, and all this to stirre up impatience and discontent within them: Thus you see what mighty effects this consideration of God as a Father should produce in us,

:106p. 17§7

In the next place consider, Why this doth so prevail with God. And

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