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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. This Joy of Christ will exceedingly wean a mans heart from the world, it will make him undervalue all these earthly things which the world so much admireth, Psa. 4.7. Thou hast put more gladness in my heart, then in the time their Corn and Wine increaseth; If then the soul have more joy and gladness in Gods presence and in his favour, then in all earthly contentments whatsoever: no wonder if the heart he loose from the one and fixed upon the other; As he that hath eaten honey finds an unsavoury taste in other things comparatively, or as he that hath steadfastly beheld the Sun, is so dazzled with the lustre thereof, that he cannot see other inferior Objects; Thus the heart that is once ravished with the sweetness and glory that is in God and Christ, knoweth not how to stoop to these inferior fading joys; No man then sets so loose in heart from earthly Comforts as he that hath this heavenly joy; Every thing tempts him to his loss, Shall he lose his fatness and sweetness by embracing the Creatures.
4. This Joy of Christ will exceedingly wean a mans heart from the world, it will make him undervalue all these earthly things which the world so much admireth, Psa. 4.7. Thou hast put more gladnesse in my heart, then in the time their Corn and Wine encreaseth; If then the soul have more joy and gladnesse in Gods presence and in his favour, then in all earthly contentments whatsoever: no wonder if the heart he loose from the one and fixed upon the other; As he that hath eaten honey findes an unsavoury taste in other things compartively, or as he that hath stddfastly beheld the Sun, is so dazeled with the lustre thereof, that he cannot see other inferiour Objects; Thus the heart that is once ravished with the sweetnesse and glory that is in God and Christ, knoweth not how to stoop to these inferiour fading joys; No man then sets so loose in heart from earthly Comforts as he that hath this heavenly joy; Every thing tempts him to his losse, Shall he lose his fatness and sweetnesse by embracing the Creatures.