A30241:1773
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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JOH. 17.11. But the Son of Perdition.
WE have not yet sucked all the honey out of this honey-comb, Not observed all the practical matter which is deducible from this sad Instance, He may be a pillar of Salt to season us; As the people stood still gazing and amazed at Asahell, wallowing in his blood, so may we with fear and trembling behold this Son of Perdition: We may be admonished not only by good Examples but bad, Judas his Perdition is a spiritual Anatomy-Lecture for us to look to our selves, and to take heed of such Diseases that may endanger us which did him.
WE have not yet sucked all the honey out of this honey-comb, Not observed all the practicall matter which is deducible from this sad Instance, He may be a pillar of Salt to season us; As the people stood still gazing and amazed at Asahell, wallowing in his bloud, so may we with fear and trembling behold this Son of Perdition: We may be admonished not only by good Examples but bad, Judas his Perdition is a spiritual Anatomy-Lecture for us to look to our selves, and to take heed of such Diseases that may endanger us which did him.
The Third Observation shall be from the Consideration of this Son of Perdition in the respective condition he was in; He is in the company of the Apostles, yet not truly of them, a Jay among the Doves, a Wolf amongst the Sheep, yet though such an one prove deceitful, and an Apostate, we are not to condemn Christ and his Apostles, we are not to censure them as all of the same temper.
The Third Observation shall be from the Consideration of this Son of Perdition in the respective condition he was in; He is in the company of the Apostles, yet not truly of them, a Jay among the Doves, a Wolf amongst the Sheep, yet though such an one prove deceitfull, and an Apostate, we are not to condemn Christ and his Apostles, we are not to censure them as all of the same temper.