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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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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. As he wisely ordereth them to be, so his great care and love is seen in the time and season when they are inflicted; Afflictions will not in every season do good, no more then the cutting down of trees, or pruning of them is at any time to be done: The Patient may dye by the unseasonable letting of blood; Therefore Christ showeth his great care and love to take the opportune season, to afflict and to exercise thee; As God would not have mercy upon Epaphroditus presently, but he lets him lie in danger, it being thereby better both for him, and Paul was thereby much afflicted; Paul had the buffetings of Satan which did greatly humble him, but when was the time; after his Revelations; And therefore that then it might not puff him above measure, It was that he had those Thorns in his side; so that Christ doth not only regard the necessity but the fit time and season of all thy Troubles: Even as Christ himself came in the fullness of time, so do all his chastisements, if they should come sooner or later, they would not do that good; Paul prayeth thrice, yet could not remove those strong Temptations, 1 Co. 12.
2. As he wisely ordereth them to be, so his great care and love is seen in the time and season when they are inflicted; Afflictions will not in every season do good, no more then the cutting down of trees, or pruning of them is at any time to be done: The Patient may dye by the unseasonable letting of bloud; Therefore Christ sheweth his great care and love to take the opportune season, to afflict and to exercise thee; As God would not have mercy upon Epaphroditus presently, but he lets him lie in danger, it being thereby better both for him, and Paul was thereby much afflicted; Paul had the buffetings of Satan which did greatly humble him, but when was the time; after his Revelations; And therefore that then it might not puff him above measure, It was that he had those Thorns in his side; so that Christ doth not onely regard the necessity but the fit time and season of all thy Troubles: Even as Christ himself came in the fulnesse of time, so doe all his chastisements, if they should come sooner or later, they would not do that good; Paul praieth thrice, yet could not remove those strong Temptations, 1 Co. 12.