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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.
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 ⟨p. 426⟩godly; It hath been so of old, and will be so to the last wicked man that breatheth; No sooner were there a wicked man and a godly, but this hatred broke out into all cruelty; Cain hated Abel, and why? because his own works were nought and his brothers good, 1 Joh. 3.12. No less will serve then the blood of Sheep, such cruel Wolves:
Obs.1 That the wicked men of the world have and will alwaies hate those that are ⟨p. 426⟩godly; It hath been so of old, and will be so to the last wicked man that breatheth; No sooner were there a wicked man and a godly, but this hatred broke out into all cruelty; Cain hated Abel, and why? because his own works were nought and his brothers good, 1 Joh. 3.12. No lesse will serve then the bloud of Sheep, such cruell Wolves:
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