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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 58: The Greatness of the Mercy of being kept sound in the Truth: And the Damnableness of Er…
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1Sixthly, It's a mercy to be kept in the truth, because of the proneness and readiness that is in men to be lead aside by errors. Gal. 2. I wonder you are so soon carried away, so soon; Let there come a false teacher, and he can quickly do more hurt, and pervert mens minds then the Apostle Paul could do good. Wonder not, if you see some seducer come to a Town, and in a moment corrupt mens minds, and make them his Disciples, and so overthrow that building which a faithful Minister hath been many years building up, you see it was of old so, Paul, though an Apostle, neither by man, nor of man, yet found it so; and at another time he complaineth, how ready they were to become even slaves to false-teachers; they might abuse and domineer over them, you suffer if a man buffet you, &c. only the true Apostles they could not bear them. We see then, why it is that a goodly field may suddenly be overrun with tares, a hopeful Church, the body of Christ, be all over with a Gangrene, and made deformed. There is a proneness in a man to err in his judgement, as well as in his life. Happy then is he whom God keeps.
1Sixthly, It's a mercy to be kept in the truth, because of the proueness and readiness that is in men to be lead aside by errours. Gal. 2. I wonder you are so soon carried away, so soon; Let there come a false teacher, and he can quickly do more hurt, and pervert mens mindes then the Apostle Paul could do good. Wonder not, if you see some seducer come to a Town, and in a moment corrupt mens mindes, and make them his Disciples, and so overthrow that building which a faithfull Minister hath been many years building up, you see it was of old so, Paul, though an Apostle, neither by man, nor of man, yet found it so; and at another time he complaineth, how ready they were to become even slaves to false-teachers; they might abuse and domineer over them, you suffer if a man buffet you, &c. onely the true Apostles they could not bear them. We see then, why it is that a goodly field may suddenly be overrunne with tares, a hopefull Church, the body of Christ, be all over with a Gangrene, and made deformed. There is a proneness in a man to erre in his judgement, as well as in his life. Happy then is he whom God keeps.