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

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Sermon 69: Of the Sonne of Perdition. Showing more Causes and Symptoms of such wretched Persons t…Sermon 69: Of the Sonne of Perdition. Shewing more Causes and Symptomes of such wretched Persons t…

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And the first in order shall be,¹ A long and constant Unprofitableness under means of Grace; When men have for a long time sate under the powerful means of Grace, yet are as ignorant, as profane and unreformed as formerly; These men commonly are resolute in their damnation; They have so often heard and heard, they are so accustomed now to the remedies that they despise them, and get no good by them; This the Apostle affirmeth, Heb. 6.8. The ground which often drinketh in rain, and yet bringeth forth nothing but briars and thorns, is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burnt; This was the case even of the whole body of the Jews, they being accustomed for many years to the threatenings of the Prophets, were so far from trembling under it, that they made a scorn of it, Jer. 23.33. because the Prophet Jeremiah did so often tell them of the Burden of the Lord, that is the heavy Sentence and Judgement of God threatened against them, they did impudently and profanely make a scorn of it; Even as many hardened sinners will now adays at the name of hell and damnation; Oh then let all such who for many years together have been under the Sun of the Gospel, fear lest when we speak of a Son of Perdition it be said, Thou art the man, for as when the body that hath been accustomed to often Physic, doth yet remain diseased, it's a great Argument of its incurableness, Thus it is here, When there are daily importunities of thee, constant expostulations with thee, and yet thou art averse and obdurate,² this may prove fatal and dreadful to thee.

And the first in order shall be,¹ A long and constant Ʋnprofitablenesse under means of Grace; When men have for a long time sate under the powerfull means of Grace, yet are as ignorant, as prophane and unreformed as formerly; These men commonly are resolute in their damnation; They have so often heard and heard, they are so accustomed now to the remedies that they despise them, and get no good by them; This the Apostle affirmeth,

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

SERMON LXX. Of the Son of Perdition: Showeth from the Example of Judas, That Men may be Eminent for a while in the Church of God, and yet afterward prove dreadful Apostates.

SERMON LXX. Of the Sonne of Perdition: Sheweth from the Example of Judas, That Men may be Eminent for a while in the Church of God, and yet afterward prove dreadfull Apostates.

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SERMON LXX. Of the Son of Perdition: Showeth from the Example of Judas, That Men may be Eminent for a while in the Church of God, and yet afterward prove dreadful Apostates.

SERMON LXX. Of the Sonne of Perdition: Sheweth from the Example of Judas, That Men may be Eminent for a while in the Church of God, and yet afterward prove dreadfull Apostates.