CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 60: The great Pattern of Unity; The Nature and Properties of the Unity that is between God…Sermon 60: The great Paterne of Ʋnity; The Nature and Properties of the Ʋnity that is between God…

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First, We are earnestly to pray to God, to bestow such a spirit of concord. ¹It's not the industry or policy of all the Conciliators, Moderators and Pacificators in the world, to bring this about, but God only can bend mens hearts for it. Hence we see our Saviour praying to the Father for this agreement, and God is called, The God of peace, because he only can make it in the Church and State. It's from Gods anger and wrath, when an evil contentious spirit is amongst the Prophets, as well as when he sends a lying spirit amongst them, when the Temple was to be destroyed, the rending of it was a prognostic of the desolation thereof; and when God will unchurch a Church, and make a Garden a Wilderness, commonly divisions are the antecedent causes of it.

First, We are earnestly to pray to God, to bestow such a spirit of concord. ¹It's not the industry or policy of all the Conciliators, Moderators and Pacificators in the world, to bring this about, but God onely can bend mens hearts for it. Hence we see our Saviour praying to the Father for this agreement, and God is called, The God of peace, because he only can make it in the Church and State. It's from Gods anger and wrath, when an evil contentious spirit is amongst the Prophets, as well as when he sends a lying spirit amongst them, when the Temple was to be destroyed, the rending of it was a prognostique of the desolation thereof; and when God will unchurch a Church, and make a Garden a Wilderness, commonly divisions are the antecedent causes of it.

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A second Rule is, To rejoice in the parts and gifts of others, as much as our own, when God is glorified by them, and to be compassionately affected in the weaknesses and failings of others. These two are necessarily joined together, and they are able to cement, and unite all differences. The former is to rejoice in other mens gifts, and abilities with that success accompanying them, as if they were our own. As we see John did, John's Disciples came with an envious spirit against Christ, and said, All men run after him. This was enough to leaven and sour John's heart, but see his excellent temper, I must decrease, and he must increase,

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SERMON LXI. The great changes that even a Godly man is subject unto, in respect of the having and losing those Sensible supports, both outward and inward, which God at some times vouchsafeth to them: Also what those sensible Enjoyments are, and why God doth so change the conditions of his People.