A30241:1992
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.
Sermon 82: Of Wicked mens hating the Godly, the Causes, Effects, and Properties of it.
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.
SERMON LXXXII. Of Wicked mens hating the Godly, the Causes, Effects, and Properties of it.
JOH. 17.14. And the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world.
The next thing to be considered is the Argument it self used by our Saviour in this Petition, Keep them by thy special protection, why? because the world hateth them; And I shall take in the second Cause into the Argument, Because they are not of this world; For I have spoken already about these things, from vers. 11. I shall add what was not then mentioned.
THe next thing to be considered is the Argument it self used by our Saviour in this Petition, Keep them by thy speciall protection, why? because the world hateth them; And I shall take in the second Cause into the Argument, Because they are not of this world; For I have spoken already about these things, from vers. 11. I shall adde what was not then mentioned.
In the Argument you may take notice of the Subject or persons that do hate, and they are said to be the world, that is, wicked men called the world, because they are the greater part of it, and because they retain the wicked inclination of the world minding only worldly things; Now though the world be many times, and it may be here taken for that Society of men that is Heathenish, and doth not believe in Christ, thus the Church and the world are opposed