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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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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, Psal. 119. This sad usage in the world, made Paul cry out, That they were the off-scouring of the world, worse then the dust of the feet, and were made a spectacle to the world and Angels, 1 Cor. 4.9.
Consid. IV Yet in the fourth place, Though so much love be in this Institution, and God expects so much thankefulnesse 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 reprebates, 2 Cor. ult. but we complain of the unsuccessefulnesse 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 darknesse 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 wonderfull or great and honourable things of my Law, and they accounted them a strange thing, Psal. 119. This sad usage in the world, made Paul cry out, That they were the off-scouring of the world, worse then the dust of the feet, and were made a spectacle to the world and Angels,