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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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3. Mortified affections to every thing here below, when we can perform the Apostles commands, To buy as we bought not, to weep as if we wept not, 1 Co. 7.1 This duty of mortification the Scripture often speaketh of, as a necessary companion to the minding of heavenly things; There is no external duty of praying or hearing that will make the heart moderate and regular in the use of all comforts, unless it be accompanied with mortification; Let not then the waters overflow the banks, Do not over-love, over-desire, over-grieve, about these earthly comforts; It's an argument thou lovest them for their own sakes, or thy own sake, and not for God, who art thus over-solicitous about them, so then to say, I desire no temporal mercy but to honour God thereby, requireth an heart mortified and crucified, if we would speak the truth, and not deceive our own souls; Till therefore we be thus divinely qualified within, You may as soon gather grapes of thorns and figs of thistles as the honour of God from such men.
3. Mortified affections to every thing here below, when we can perform the Apostles commands, To buy as we bought not, to weep as if we wept not, 1 Co. 7.1 This duty of mortification the Scripture often speaketh of, as a necessary companion to the minding of heavenly things; There is no externall duty of praying or hearing that will make the heart moderate and regular in the use of all comforts, unlesse it be accompanied with mortification; Let not then the waters overflow the banks, Do not over-love, over-desire, over-grieve, about these earthly comforts; It's an argument thou lovest them for their own sakes, or thy own sake, and not for God, who art thus over-sollicitous about them, so then to say, I desire no temporall mercy but to honour God thereby, requireth an heart mortified and crucified, if we would speak the truth, and not deceive our own souls; Till therefore we be thus divinely qualified within, You may as soon gather grapes of thorns and figs of thistles as the honour of God from such men.
- 13. And be mortified to the world.