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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.
Sermon 47: Of Gods Propriety in his People as the Ground of all the Good that accrueth to them.
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.
2. Because they have more choice and intimate Fellowship and Communion with the Father then the world: They have the Light of his Countenance, assurance of his Love: They have the hidden Manna; They have a peculiar Enjoyment of him, which is more as David saith, Psal. 4. then the wicked men have when their Wine and Oil increaseth: They are called Friends in opposition to Servants by Christ, Joh. 15.15. And therefore are admitted into that presence and those heavenly Secrets, which wicked men know not, which made the Church repeat this so often, She was her well beloveds, and her well beloved was hers, Cant. 6.3. And from this followeth that holy and heavenly Communion with Christ which the Church hath; Oh if the world did but know what the Godly have from God, Other meat, Other Riches, Other Comforts then they understand: How would they lament their distance from God? They have Husks only when there is the fatted Calf in our Fathers House; Insomuch that though the Godly have not the good things of this Life always, yet they have the good, yea, the better things of Heaven and Happiness as a Viaticum in their Journey thither.
2. Because they have more choice and intimate Fellowship and Communion with the Father then the world: They have the Light of his Countenance, assurance of his Love: They have the hidden Manna; They have a peculiar Enjoyment of him, which is more as David saith, Psal. 4. then the wicked men have when their Wine and Oyle encreaseth: They are called Friends in opposition to Servants by Christ, Joh. 15.15. And therefore are admitted into that presence and those heavenly Secrets, which wicked men know not, which made the Church repeat this so often, She was her well beloveds, and her well beloved was hers, Cant. 6.3. And from this followeth that holy and heavenly Communion with Christ which the Church hath; Oh if the world did but know what the Godly have from God, Other meat, Other Riches, Other Comforts then they understand: How would they lament their distance from God? They have Husks onely when there is the fatted Calf in our Fathers House; Insomuch that though the Godly have not the good things of this Life alwaies, yet they have the good, yea, the better things of Heaven and Happinesse as a Viaticum in their Journey thither.