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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.
As God increaseth their strength so he doth also their comfort, he gives them more joy and consolation then they ever had, as the Disciples had the Comforter promised them after his departure, and accordingly we read that under all the persecutions and miseries they endured, they were filled with joy, and they went away rejoicing, so true is that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 1.4. Who comforteth us in all our Tribulations, that as our sufferings abound so our consolations also abound; This we see abundantly fulfilled in all the holy Martyrs and Confessors, was not their dungeon a Paradise to them? Were not live Coals beds of Roses? Did they not rejoice and sing Psalms? Now how came all this about? The more their miseries were, the more were Gods mercies; Christ that gave them but drops before, doth now bid them drink the whole cup of praise and Thanks-giving; Now they are taken up to the Mount of Transfiguration, They have not only clusters but the Vine it self; Consolations abound now, when never it may be before.
As God encreaseth their strength so he doth also their comfort, he gives them more joy and consolation then they ever had, as the Disciples had the Comforter promised them after his departure, and accordingly we reade that under all the persecutions and miseries they endured, they were filled with joy, and they went away rejoycing, so true is that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 1.4. Who comforteth us in all our Tribulations, that as our sufferings abound so our consolations also abound; This we see abundantly fulfilled in all the holy Martyrs and Confessors, was not their dungeon a Paradise to them? Were not live Coals beds of Roses? Did they not rejoyce and sing Psalms? Now how came all this about? The more their miseries were, the more were Gods mercies; Christ that gave them but drops before, doth now bid them drink the whole cup of praise and Thanks-giving; Now they are taken up to the Mount of Transfiguration, They have not only clusters but the Vine it self; Consolations abound now, when never it may be before.