CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 82: Of Wicked mens hating the Godly, the Causes, Effects, and Properties of it.

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2, It is an universal hatred; For seeing he hateth a Godly man for his Godliness, then he must needs hate it wheresoever he seeth it; Indeed some Godly men either through the power and place they have, or for other Reasons are not so subject to the effects of wicked mens hatred, but the heart is full of poison ⟨p. 428⟩and venom against the one as the other, for he cannot be a good man whom wicked men do not hate one way or other; Woe be to you when all men speak well of you; This hating of Godliness is called hating of the Light, Joh. 3.19. Now all Light is offensive to soar eyes; Thus the Godly man liveth, but he must have his portion: Be afraid if wicked men love thee as seeing nothing of God in thee, they think thee like one of themselves, if I did my duty I should be more opposed.

2, It is an universal hatred; For seeing he hateth a Godly man for his Godlinesse, then he must needs hate it wheresoever he seeth it; Indeed some Godly men either through the power and place they have, or for other Reasons are not so subject to the effects of wicked mens hatred, but the heart is full of poison ⟨p. 428⟩and venome against the one as the other, for he cannot be a good man whom wicked men do not hate one way or other; Wo be to you when all men speak well of you; This hating of Godlinesse is called hating of the Light, Joh. 3.19. Now all Light is offensive to soar eyes; Thus the Godly man liveth, but he must have his portion: Be afraid if wicked men love thee as seeing nothing of God in thee, they think thee like one of themselves, if I did my duty I should be more opposed.

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3. It is an implacable irreconcilable Hatred,

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON LXXXIII. The Application of the fore-going Observation, both to the Godly and the Wicked, tending to Encourage and Rejoice the one under all their Sufferings, and Debtor and Reclaim the other from all their Oppositions.

SERMON LXXXIII. The Application of the fore-going Observation, both to the Godly and the Wicked, tending to Encourage and Rejoyce the one under all their Sufferings, and Deterre and Reclaim the other from all their Oppositions.

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SERMON LXXXIII. The Application of the fore-going Observation, both to the Godly and the Wicked, tending to Encourage and Rejoice the one under all their Sufferings, and Debtor and Reclaim the other from all their Oppositions.

SERMON LXXXIII. The Application of the fore-going Observation, both to the Godly and the Wicked, tending to Encourage and Rejoyce the one under all their Sufferings, and Deterre and Reclaim the other from all their Oppositions.