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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. Joy and Thankfulness; The overflowing of the heart with praise and rejoicing is from this, because God is our God; Thus David is like a Fountain often running over, because God forgave his iniquities, and was his God; The people of God walk in darkness because they are not clear in this, their evidences are not strong here.
2. Joy and Thankefulnesse; The overflowing of the heart with praise and rejoycing is from this, because God is our God; Thus David is like a Fountain often running over, because God forgave his iniquities, and was his God; The people of God walk in darknesse because they are not clear in this, their evidences are not strong here.
3. Contentation and a blessed composure of spirit: For in that God is theirs they have all can be desired, Fear not Abraham I am thy exceeding great reward; The Lord is my Shepherd I shall want nothing, Psal. 23.1, I wonder not now that Paul can say he knoweth how to abound and how to want, Phil. 4. 12. yea, that he hath all things [Greek or Hebrew] because he hath God who hath all things; Oh say not I want a drop when thou hast the Ocean.
3. Contentation and a blessed composure of spirit: For in that God is theirs they have all can be desired, Fear not Abraham I am thy exceeding great reward; The Lord is my Shepherd I shall want nothing, Psal. 23.1, I wonder not now that Paul can say he knoweth how to abound and how to want, Phil. 4. 12. yea, that he hath all things 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 because he hath God who hath all things; Oh say not I want a drop when thou hast the Ocean.