A30241:1891
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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I have been large in this, to show what mighty and gracious work of Gods Spirit, that is, to instruct, and convince the heart of this duty, to believe and rejoice, to be able to say, God delights not in these perplexed thoughts, as he saith of these superstitious duties so these immoderate fears and dejections, Who hath required these things at your hands? I shall answer for unbelieving sorrows as well as carnal mirth, for those dejecting fears and unquiet troubles of soul, Thou art to fear hell and damnation as well as for Licentious jollities.
I have been large in this, to shew what mighty and gracious work of Gods Spirit, that is, to instruct, and convince the heart of this duty, to beleeve and rejoyce, to be able to say, God delights not in these perplexed thoughts, as he saith of these superstitious duties so these immoderate fears and dejections, Who hath required these things at your hands? I shall answer for unbeleeving sorrows as well as carnall mirth, for those dejecting fears and unquiet troubles of soul, Thou art to fear hell and damnation as well as for Licentious jollities.
12. The Spirit of God doth not only inform of the duty of Comfort, but also directs unto the way of comfort; It doth lead into the true way of Justification, Joh. 14.16. The Comforter will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance; As he is the Comforter he will teach them what way to take, that they may have true Consolation, for as by nature it's an ingrafted principle ⟨p. 405⟩in all to desire happiness: Ask any man in the world, and he will answer affirmatively to this Question, So every man troubled and humbled for sin would willingly have comfort, as the lame man would to walk, the blind man to see, but how to have true peace with God, there is the difficulty; As there were above an hundred Opinions amongst the Philosophers, wha• was the summum bonum, So there are great disputations about that Righteousness whereby we are justified, the ground of peace, So that it's an heavenly skill to be directed into the right way for comfort,