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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.
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. Levit. 20.26. So that if we would know how we are to be holy, it must not be as men think, or as the world prescribeth, but as God is holy: Not that we can attain to an equality, but to a similitude only; So that the principle of the world must fall to the ground; They will do as others do, or as most do: Oh but rather Consider that God himself hath set down a Form for thee, and because there is such fullness in him as in an Ocean, therefore we have a necessity of growing every day; No man is as holy as the pattern, therefore still he is to be perfecting Holiness and Righteousness in the Fear of God, 1 Cor. 7.1.
1Sixthly, God is holy exemplarily; He is the Rule, Pattern, and Example of holinesse, 1 Pet. 1.15. Be ye holy as I am holy. Levit. 20.26. So that if we would know how we are to be holy, it must not be as men think, or as the world prescribeth, but as God is holy: Not that we can attain to an equality, but to a similitude onely; So that the principle of the world must fall to the ground; They will doe as others doe, or as most doe: Oh but rather Consider that God himself hath set down a Form for thee, and because there is such fulnesse in him as in an Ocean, therefore we have a necessity of growing every day; No man is as holy as the patern, therefore still he is to be perfecting Holinesse and Righteousnesse in the Fear of God, 1 Cor. 7.1.
- 1VI. Holy exemplarily.