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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
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Sermon 4: Of Gods appointing an hour, a set time for the dispensing his Mercies and Judgements, i…
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Doct. That God in his wisdom doth appoint times and seasons both of his children's afflictions and their mercies: They fall not out by chance,1 they come not at unawares, but God hath decreed the particular times and seasons, before which they cannot come, and in which time they are sure to come: The time of Israels Captivity was seventy years, Though all the godly on earth had prayed to God, there would not have been a shortening of that time; Again, when those years were expired, all the power in the world could not stop or hinder their deliverance; Their very enemies procure it for them; Therefore that of the Psalmist is very pertinent, Psa. 102.13. The time to favour her, yea, the set time is come: Hence you have in the Prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, the determinate fixed times for the great troubles and great deliverances of the Church, though expressed obscurely; A time and half time, as also so many days putting days for years.
Doct. That God in his wisedom doth appoint times and seasons both of his childrens afflictions and their mercies: They fall not out by chance,1 they come not at unawares, but God hath decreed the particular times and seasons, before which they cannot come, and in which time they are sure to come: The time of Israels Captivity was seventy years, Though all the godly on earth had praied to God, there would not have been a shortning of that time; Again, when those years were expired, all the power in the world could not stop or hinder their deliverance; Their very enemies procure it for them; Therefore that of the Psalmist is very pertinent, Psa. 102.13. The time to favour her, yea, the set time is come: Hence you have in the Prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, the determinate fixed times for the great troubles and great deliverances of the Church, though expressed obscurely; A time and half time, as also so many daies putting daies for years.
- 1Doct. That God doth appoint times and seasons for his great works.