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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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2. God in his just judgement lets wicked men have their hour:1 That is an opportunity of expressing all their wickedness and impiety, so that you would think God took no notice of the things done in the world, and was as some ⟨p. 22⟩Philosophers profanely thought included within the circles of the heaven, and had given the earth to the Sons of men to do what they would: This our Saviour told his enemies, who consulted and practised against him, Luk. 22.53. This is your hour and power of darkness; Thus in the Revelation we see that Satan was let loose for many years, and then he was bound up for many years, which denoteth that God by his just permission did suffer Satan and his Instruments to prevail in the world; And when this hour of darkness is, all the prayers and all the tears of the godly shall not prevail till his time of deliverance come; And this we may find even from the beginning of the world, since there was an Abel and a Cain, that God lets some wicked men have their hour, a power and season to act their impieties, and yet Gods ways were always just, when the causes were hid from us.
2. God in his just judgement lets wicked men have their hour:1 That is an opportunity of expressing all their wickednesse and impiety, so that you would think God took no notice of the things done in the world, and was as some ⟨p. 22⟩Philosophers prophanely thought included within the circles of the heaven, and had given the earth to the Sonnes of men to do what they would: This our Saviour told his enemies, who consulted and practised against him, Luk. 22.53. This is your hour and power of darknesse; Thus in the Revelation we see that Satan was let loose for many years, and then he was bound up for many years, which denoteth that God by his just permission did suffer Satan and his Instruments to prevail in the world; And when this hour of darkness is, all the praiers and all the tears of the godly shall not prevail till his time of deliverance come; And this we may finde even from the beginning of the world, since there was an Abel and a Cain, that God lets some wicked men have their hour, a power and season to act their impieties, and yet Gods waies were alwaies just, when the causes were hid from us.