A30241:1995
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 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.
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 1 Cor. 5.10. yet we may extend it further, even to such as do outwardly profess Christ, but in works do deny him, as is more to be showed.
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 beleeve in Christ, thus the Church and the world are opposed 1 Cor. 5.10. yet we may extend it further, even to such as do outwardly professe Christ, but in works do deny him, as is more to be shewed.
2. There is the act it self, hate, [Greek or Hebrew], The word is in the preterperfect tense, It hath hated them already, though they had not much tormented it by their preaching, but it would more hate them, when Christ was removed, and their preaching more universal; It comprehends all times, it hath, it doth, and it will hate them, and hatred you heard was worse then anger, being more fixed and permanent? The cause of this is, because They are not of the world, for as love is to its like, so hatred is to that which is unlike and contrary; In the Scripture some Learned men say to hate is sometimes taken to love less, not an absolute hatred, but a respective love, Mat. 6.24. He will love one, and hate the other, i. e. less love, And for this end they bring that place,