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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
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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.
1Thirdly, Consider the effects of this hatred, and that is in three steps and degrees.
- 1III. The effects of it.
1. An inward willing of all evil that may hurt them, and that because it is ⟨p. 427⟩evil To will a man some evil for his good may be lawful, as when David prayeth, Put them in fear O Lord, that they may know themselves to be men, Psa. 9.20. Thus the Church of God may pray for afflictions upon those Enemies that are curable, That by their afflictions they may repent and be humbled before God, but hatred hath not this goodness: It wills evil because it is evil, and for evils sake; It rejoiceth in the evil that befalleth a godly man, as part of its own good and happiness; Thus it is with all wicked men, they rejoice as if some great good had befallen them, when some great evil hath come upon the godly.
1. An inward willing of all evil that may hurt them, and that because it is ⟨p. 427⟩evil To will a man some evil for his good may be lawfull, as when David praieth, Put them in fear O Lord, that they may know themselves to be men, Psa. 9.20. Thus the Church of God may pray for afflictions upon those Enemies that are curable, That by their afflictions they may repent and be humbled before God, but hatred hath not this goodnesse: It wils evil because it is evil, and for evils sake; It rejoyceth in the evil that befalleth a godly man, as part of its own good and happinesse; Thus it is with all wicked men, they rejoyce as if some great good had befallen them, when some great evil hath come upon the godly.