A30241:1966
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.
2. As it's opposite to their natures, so to their lives and conversations, Ephes. 2. Paul there describes what kind of men the Ephesians were, and that it might not be thought their peculiar wickedness, he saith, They walked after the course of this world, and therefore Rom. 12. The command is not to be conformed to the fashion of this world: Can flesh and blood then endure, that the Ministers of God should damn to hell? The lives, the manners, the daily customs and practises, that generally men live in. When Moses did but in a fair way reprove two Israelites, that were quarrelling, how frowardly did they answer, Who made thee a Judge over us? Exod. 2.14. And so the Sodomites to Lot, they judged it all Lordliness and domineering; and is not the same stubbornness still reigning every where? All reproofs, all denunciations out of Gods Word, are judged to be the pride, the lordliness, or the malice of the Minister; Wonder not then if the faithful preaching of Gods word, meeteth with such violent opposition; for they persuade a life, a way, directly contrary to what the world delights in.
2. As it's opposite to their natures, so to their lives and conversations, Ephes. 2. Paul there describes what kinde of men the Ephesians were, and that it might not be thought their peculiar wickednesse, he saith, They walked after the course of this world, and therefore Rom. 12. The command is not to be conformed to the fashion of this world: Can flesh and blood then endure, that the Ministers of God should damn to hell? The lives, the manners, the daily customs and practises, that generally men live in. When Moses did but in a fair way reprove two Israelites, that were quarrelling, how frowardly did they answer, Who made thee a Judge over us? Exod. 2.14. And so the Sodomites to Lot, they judged it all Lordliness and domineering; and is not the same stubbornnesse still reigning every where? All reproofs, all denunciations out of Gods Word, are judged to be the pride, the lordlinesse, or the malice of the Minister; Wonder not then if the faithfull preaching of Gods word, meeteth with such violent opposition; for they perswade a life, a way, directly contrary to what the world delights in.