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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 52: Of the Danger Gods People are in in the world, in respect of its hating and opposing of…
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1. Seeing that the most holy and godly that are have many imperfections and divers sins, therefore God he brings many troubles on them; God in the first place he troubleth them,1 though his troublings be like the troubling of the Pool, it's in mercy, and that healing might be vouchsafed; Thus God troubled David, and made him encounter with grievous calamities because of sin; Thus whom God loveth he chasteneth, Heb. 12.6. This is Gods judging of us that we might not be condemned with the world; And certainly it is this that so deeply wounds the Godly, that wicked mens tongues are but Gods Instruments of his displeasure, as David when Shimei railed on him, The Lord hath bid him, saith he, 2 Sam. 13.
- 11. Because of their many sins God brings many troubles on them.1. Because of their many sinnes God brings many troubles on them.
But besides those troubles which come mediately from God by Instruments there are immediate exercises which are more difficultly born then any outward troubles; Thus God troubled Job, when he complained, The arrows of the Almighty stuck fast in him, Job 6.4. Thus David often complaineth, God doth hide his face from him, and he was troubled; These are temptations the carnal man is ignorant of, he was never in these deeps where there is no trouble like this; If it were Plague, Famine Diseases, the Soul could bear them, but a wounded Spirit who can bear, Prov. 28.14. So that herein the world is a place of trouble and misery, that God many times exerciseth his own people for their sins, leaveth them in darkness, yea, in an hell, that they are weary abroad and weary at home; Whereas when once arrived in heaven, there shall be no more night but bright day always.