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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.
1. Man hath by sin forfeited all his temporal mercies, there is nothing due to him, no health, no wealth; not the least comfort, but every man here upon the earth, might be like Dives in hell, begging for a drop of water, and not able to attain it, Gal. 3. Cursed is he that keepeth not the Law, and Gen. 3. upon sin, death in all the concomitants of it, came into the world, so that if all these curses of the Law be not every moment inflicted upon us, it's because God keepeth us; He beareth off the blows that Justice and the Law would lay upon us; So that it's Gods goodness that keepeth thee alive, that keeps thee on this side hell, that keeps thee from that proper doom which belongs to thee▪ The Sentence of death is passed upon all long ago, only the execution of it is put off till God pleaseth: Who art thou then that repinest and art troubled under such a loss, such an affliction? how many thousands more are there that God keeps thee from? None is so miserable, but he may see others more miserable then himself; It is the Lord that keeps all these curses from thee, and thee from them.
1. Man hath by sinne forfeited all his temporall mercies, there is nothing due to him, no health, no wealth; not the least comfort, but every man here upon the earth, might be like Dives in hell, begging for a drop of water, and not able to attain it, Gal. 3. Cursed is he that keepeth not the Law, and Gen. 3. upon sinne, death in all the concomitants of it, came into the world, so that if all these curses of the Law be not every moment inflicted upon us, it's because God keepeth us; He beareth off the blows that Justice and the Law would lay upon us; So that it's Gods goodnesse that keepeth thee alive, that keeps thee on this side hell, that keeps thee from that proper doom which belongs to thee▪ The Sentence of death is passed upon all long agoe, onely the execution of it is put off till God pleaseth: Who art thou then that repinest and art troubled under such a losse, such an affliction? how many thousands more are there that God keeps thee from? None is so miserable, but he may see others more miserable then himself; It is the Lord that keeps all these curses from thee, and thee from them.