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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
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.
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, Rom. 9.3. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated, where they would expound hate of a less love, but whatever may be said of the former place, this latter will admit of no such Exposition, as the Context will easily evidence.
2. There is the act it self, hate, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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 universall; 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 lesse, not an absolute hatred, but a respective love, Mat. 6.24. He will love one, and hate the other, i. e. lesse love, And for this end they bring that place, Rom. 9.3. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated, where they would expound hate of a lesse love, but whatever may be said of the former place, this latter will admit of no such Exposition, as the Context will easily evidence.