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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the next place consider, Why this doth so prevail with God. And
1. Because it's not a bare Title, 1but accompanied with the real love and bowels of a Father: God is not only called so, but is indeed a Father, yea, a Father above all earthly Fathers, yea, or mothers too, he takes more tenderness upon him then they can have, Isa. 49.15. when Zion sadly complained The Lord had forsaken her, he tells her, Though a woman should forget her ⟨p. 18⟩sucking child, yet he would not; So then love is infinitely in God, his kindness is like himself beyond all thoughts and expressions, and if among men it be so unnatural for a Father not to love his child, can we think God will not love his? He that hath commanded us to love our enemies, and to forgive them seventy times seven in a day, will not he pardon his Children? Children are part of the Father, and therefore God visiteth the sins of Fathers sometimes upon their Children, because they are as one with the Father, and Christ prayeth that the godly and his Father may be one.
1. Because it's not a bare Title, 1but accompanied with the reall love and bowels of a Father: God is not only called so, but is indeed a Father, yea, a Father above all earthly Fathers, yea, or mothers too, he takes more tendernesse upon him then they can have, Isa. 49.15. when Zion sadly complained The Lord had forsaken her, he tels her, Though a woman should forget her ⟨p. 18⟩sucking childe, yet he would not; So then love is infinitely in God, his kindenesse is like himself beyond all thoughts and expressions, and if among men it be so unnaturall for a Father not to love his childe, can we think God will not love his? He that hath commanded us to love our enemies, and to forgive them seventy times seven in a day, will not he pardon his Children? Children are part of the Father, and therefore God visiteth the sinnes of Fathers sometimes upon their Children, because they are as one with the Father, and Christ praieth that the godly and his Father may be one.