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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.
1Fifthly, He is finally holy, That is all our holiness is to terminate in him; Holiness doth properly respect God as the Object, and therefore though a man prayeth, heareth, giveth alms, yea; his body to be burnt, and doth not with a pure and chaste Intention look at Gods glory in all this, it is not holiness; Hence it is that many have low thoughts about holiness, and grossly mistake in it, taking copper for Gold, and Samuel's Ghost for Samuel himself; Thou art not holy till thou canst truly say in some Degree at least, though with much opposition, Whom have I in Heaven but God? and none on Earth besides him: In Heaven Heaven it self would not be heaven to a gracious heart, but because God is there.
1Fifthly, He is finally holy, That is all our holinesse is to terminate in him; Holinesse doth properly respect God as the Object, and therefore though a man praieth, heareth, giveth alms, yea; his body to be burnt, and doth not with a pure and chaste Intention look at Gods glory in all this, it is not holinesse; Hence it is that many have low thoughts about holinesse, and grosly mistake in it, taking copper for Gold, and Samuels Ghost for Samuel himself; Thou art not holy till thou canst truly say in some Degree at least, though with much opposition, Whom have I in Heaven but God? and none on Earth besides him: In Heaven Heaven it self would not be heaven to a gracious heart, but because God is there.
- 1V. He is finally holy.
1Sixthly, God is holy exemplarily; He is the Rule, Pattern, and Example of holiness, 1 Pet. 1.15. Be ye holy as I am holy.