A30241:1981
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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Sermon 81: Of Suffering for Christs Cause, And how it engageth God to take care of such as so suff…
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The Grounds of Gods endearment to protect such as are hated for his Name sake are
1. Gods propriety and interest in such, It's not their lives or Liberties are aimed at so much as his Name, his Glory, his Truth; Now God cannot but love what is his own, and that infinitely; Therefore it hath always been the Custom of Gods people in their Prayers to make their trouble to be in reference to him; What wilt thou do for thy great Name? said Joshua, c. 7.9. And David, It's time to work, for men have made void thy Law; So it's thy Temple, thy Altars they have polluted, and hence God accounts all the malice and madness of men discovered against his people as done to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Act. 9 4. Could they do that to God which they do to his Name, they would; Therefore the people of God may strongly and comfortably urge, that it's not their good, their peace is the quarrel, but because of something of God in them, as the Basilisk hateth the picture of a man because it hateth a man himself.
1. Gods propriety and interest in such, It's not their lives or Liberties are aimed at so much as his Name, his Glory, his Truth; Now God cannot but love what is his own, and that infinitely; Therefore it hath alwaies been the Custome of Gods people in their Praiers to make their trouble to be in reference to him; What wilt thou do for thy great Name? said Joshua, c. 7.9. And David, It's time to work, for men have made void thy Law; So it's thy Temple, thy Altars they have polluted, and hence God accounts all the malice and madnesse of men discovered against his people as done to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Act. 9 4. Could they do that to God which they do to his Name, they would; Therefore the people of God may strongly and comfortably urge, that it's not their good, their peace is the quarrell, but because of something of God in them, as the Basilisk hateth the picture of a man because it hateth a man himself.