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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.
And Lastly, It breaketh out into actions as that which consummateth all their wickedness; It was hatred killed all the holy Prophets, crucified Christ, and put to death so many Millions of Martyrs; Before this hatred no good man, no holy man could stand.
And Lastly, It breaketh out into actions as that which consummateth all their wickednesse; It was hatred killed all the holy Prophets, crucified Christ, and put to death so many Millions of Martyrs; Before this hatred no good man, no holy man could stand.
Obj. But you may ask, How can a man hate a good man whom he knoweth to be good, seeing it is ordinarily said, No man can will evil because it is evil; And to hate a good man because he is good, implieth, That the will can refuse and detest its proper Object.
The Answer is, We are said to hate godly men, as wicked men are said to hate God: Now God as he is good and full of all loveliness, so cannot be hated, but as he hath that which a wicked man looks upon as evil to himself, so he hateth him; Thus as God is a holy God, one that will not acquit a sinner, that will render to every man according to his works, So the wicked hate God▪ In like manner the wicked man hateth a godly man, because his Godliness is that which is contrary to him, an evil to him? It discovers thy naughtiness, It reproveth and rebuketh thy Impiety, and upon this reason he hateth him, yet, the wicked man doth not only hate a Godly man, but all things that belong to him, and every thing a godly man loveth he hateth, Godly Ordinances, the means of Grace, and all because a Godly man loveth them; All Praying and preaching he hateth, All godly Order and Government in the Church of God he hateth, because these things are loved by a Godly man, As love loveth not only the person but all things that belong to him, so doth hatred the contrary.