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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.
3. The Scripture speaks of a good hatred, Rom. 7.15. That which I hate, I do; So we are commanded to hate our Father and Mother, to hate our own lives, Luk. 14.26. Joh. 12.25 for Christs sake; David also said, He hated them which hated God with a perfect hatred, i. e. a full complete hatred, he had no love at all to them, that is, in respect of their wickedness and their incurable enmity against God, though in other respects he pitied and loved them.
3. The Scripture speaks of a good hatred, Rom. 7.15. That which I hate, I do; So we are commanded to hate our Father and Mother, to hate our own lives, Luk. 14.26. Joh. 12.25 for Christs sake; David also said, He hated them which hated God with a perfect hatred, i. e. a full complete hatred, he had no love at all to them, that is, in respect of their wickednesse and their incurable enmity against God, though in other respects he pitied and loved them.
Lastly, There is a wicked and evil hatred, of which the Text speaks.
Obs.1 That the wicked men of the world have and will always hate those that are