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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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The second Observation may be this, Whereas Judas had this condition befallen him, which did draw out his corruption, and so was the means to undo him, Observe,
That it's a very sad thing to fall into such a condition,1 that draweth out our peculiar corruptions we are most prone unto. This was the poison to Judas, he being naturally inclined to unjust gain, hath this office of carrying the bag, and thus he hath the opportunity of augmenting his impiety. How he came about to be put in the Stewards place, men do but conjecture. Some say, It was his earnest endeavour and plot for it. Others, That Christ did it to engage him, and to make him more inexcusable. To be sure, This was to him as Delilah to Sampson; as Saul thought Michall would have been to David; as the Ivy to the Wall; it was as Moths to the linen, even eating him up, and consuming of him.
That it's a very sad thing to fall into such a condition,1 that draweth out our peculiar corruptions we are most prone unto. This was the poison to Judas, he being naturally inclined to unjust gain, hath this office of carrying the bagge, and thus he hath the opportunity of augmenting his impiety. How he came about to be put in the Stewards place, men do but conjecture. Some say, It was his earnest endeavour and plot for it. Others, That Christ did it to engage him, and to make him more inexcusable. To be sure, This was to him as Dalilah to Sampson; as Saul thought Michall would have been to David; as the Ivy to the Wall; it was as Moths to the linnen, even eating him up, and consuming of him.
- 1Observ. 2. That it's a very sad thing to fall into such a condition that draweth out our peculiar corruptions, we are most prone unto.