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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.
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Therefore 3. In the hatred of the world God hath a special regard to his Children, he layeth no more on them then they can bear; The strong Christian God calleth to more dangerous combats; All had not such oppositions as Paul had, Some are like Uriah, put in the forefront of the battle; The devil shall cast some of you into prison, Rev. 2.10. It's but some of them; Thus James was beheaded, and Peter was imprisoned, when the other Apostles were not touched; God doth wisely order the affairs of this world, even wicked mens tongues and hands are bound up, and they are let loose as God pleaseth.
Therefore 3. In the hatred of the world God hath a special regard to his Children, he laieth no more on them then they can bear; The strong Christian God calleth to more dangerous combats; All had not such oppositions as Paul had, Some are like Ʋriah, put in the forefront of the battel; The devil shall cast some of you into prison, Rev. 2.10. It's but some of them; Thus James was beheaded, and Peter was imprisoned, when the other Apostles were not touched; God doth wisely order the affairs of this world, even wicked mens tongues and hands are bound up, and they are let loose as God pleaseth.
4. Even amongst wicked men there is much difference, Some are far more bitter and cruel then others, Some have more Conviction, Some have better Natures, Some are of a more noble disposition, for although that Seed of Enmity be in all wicked men, yet in some it's more stifled or diverted then in others, when Herodias sought the death of John Baptist, Herod for a long time preserved him; Thus as all weeds have not the like noxiousness, so neither is every wicked man like to another; Every one is not a Cain, an Absalom, a Nero, or a bloody Bonner.
4. Even amongst wicked men there is much difference, Some are farre more bitter and cruell then others, Some have more Conviction, Some have better Natures, Some are of a more noble disposition, for although that Seed of Enmity be in all wicked men, yet in some it's more stifled or diverted then in others, when Herodias sought the death of John Baptist, Herod for a long time preserved him; Thus as all weeds have not the like noxiousnesse, so neither is every wicked man like to another; Every one is not a Cain, an Absalom, a Nero, or a bloudy Bonner.