A30241:1961
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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Consid. III Therefore in the third place, God and Christ do justly expect, that the world should with all gladness and obedience receive these his Messengers. For shall God purpose so great love, and Christ at so dear a rate purchase such Officers, and must not the world set open the doors to receive them? Shall not they cry, Blessed are the feet of such as bring the glad tidings of the Gospel? Are they not to be affected, as the Galatians once to Paul, To pull out their very eyes to serve him? Certainly, if David did so celebrate Gods goodness in creating Heaven and Earth, and appointing the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field for mans use, much more ought we in this great matter of the Church.
Consid. III Therefore in the third place, God and Christ do justly expect, that the world should with all gladnesse and obedience receive these his Messengers. For shall God purpose so great love, and Christ at so dear a rate purchase such Officers, and must not the world set open the doors to receive them? Shall not they cry, Blessed are the feet of such as bring the glad tidings of the Gospel? Are they not to be affected, as the Galatians once to Paul, To pull out their very eyes to serve him? Certainly, if David did so celebrate Gods goodnesse in creating Heaven and Earth, and appointing the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field for mans use, much more ought we in this great matter of the Church.
Consid. IV Yet in the fourth place, Though so much love be in this Institution, and God expects so much thankfulness and obedience, because of it, it may make us tremble to see, how little entertainment their Office and work hath in the world. We speak not in regard of their outward honour and esteem: For as Paul saith, so ought we pray, men might do no evil, though we be accounted as reprobates, 2 Cor. ult. but we complain of the unsuccessfulness of it, in respect of the divine operations of it; We take up our Saviours complaint, That light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather then light, John 3. Oh this is that which the Scripture doth so bitterly complain of▪ Who hath believed our report? and I told them the wonderful or great and honourable things of my Law, and they accounted them a strange thing,