A30241:1775
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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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.
Obs. That we are not to condemn the way of Religion and Religious persons, 1though some amongst them prove scandalous and deceitful; Would it not have been horrible impiety to have broken out against all the Apostles and Christ himself saying, look what they are, It's as the Pharisees said, a company of Impostors and Deceivers, They are all for their own ends, they are all covetous, and though they pretend Religion, yet they are bypocrites, and though they condemn the gross sins of the world, yet in secret they can be as bad as any, would not such a tongue show that it was set on fire from hell, that should belch out such things; It's then of special consequence to know, that we are not to love the strictness of Religion, the less, nor are we to prejudice our selves against the way and persons of Godly men▪ if sometimes amongst them there be such who made the pretence of holiness a disguise to act their wickedness in: Think not the worse of the Apostles, because a Judas was amongst them.
Obs. That we are not to condemn the way of Religion and Religious persons, 1though some amongst them prove scandalous and deceitfull; Would it not have been horrible impiety to have broken out against all the Apostles and Christ himself saying, look what they are, It's as the Pharisees said, a company of Impostors and Deceivers, They are all for their own ends, they are all covetous, and though they pretend Religion, yet they are bypocrites, and though they condemn the grosse sinnes of the world, yet in secret they can be as bad as any, would not such a tongue shew that it was set on fire from hell, that should belch out such things; It's then of special consequence to know, that we are not to love the strictnesse of Religion, the lesse, nor are we to prejudice our selves against the way and persons of Godly men if sometimes amongst them there be such who made the pretence of holinesse a disguise to act their wickednesse in: Think not the worse of the Apostles, because a Judas was amongst them.