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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 83: The Application of the fore-going Observation, both to the Godly and the Wicked, tendin…
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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.
JOHN 17.14. And the World hath hated them, because they are not of the World.
The Worlds hatred (you have heard) to be the godly mans Portion, The one are Sheep, the other Wolves. I now proceed to show, What is the Duty of Christs Disciples under the worlds hatred? For it's no mean skill to take the poison from these enemies, and to make wholesome medicines of it, as Physicians do about Vipers; yea, it's one of the great miracles that Christ hath enabled all believers to perform. For we read, when an Heathen surprised a Christian, and beat him with much cruelty, and with great scorn asking him, What great wonder his Master Christ ever did? The believer replies, even this great miracle, That though you use me thus cruelly, I can heartily forgive you. What then was spoken to the Disciples in an external, temporal manner, may be verified in a spiritual sense, That they shall tread upon Serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.
THe Worlds hatred (you have heard) to be the godly mans Portion, The one are Sheep, the other Wolves. I now proceed to shew, What is the Duty of Christs Disciples under the worlds hatred? For it's no mean skill to take the poyson from these enemies, and to make wholsom medicines of it, as Physicians do about Vipers; yea, it's one of the great miracles that Christ hath enabled all believers to perform. For we reade, when an Heathen suprized a Christian, and beat him with much cruelty, and with great scorn asking him, What great wonder his Master Christ ever did? The believer replies, even this great miracle, That though you use me thus cruelly, I can heartily forgive you. What then was spoken to the Disciples in an external, temporal manner, may be verified in a spiritual sense, That they shall tread upon Serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.