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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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Secondly, Consider, whether it be not for some other sins, that such men are made adversaries against thee: For you must know, God hath a wise ordering ⟨p. 431⟩of all mens hearts and tongues, even in reference to thee; and as David when Shimei railed on him, said, 2 Sam. 16. The Lord hath bid him, So whatsoever wicked men do concerning thee, thou must say, The Lord hath bid him. Now though David was not guilty of those sins Shimei reviled him with; neither did the Lord bring him in distress for his quarrel with Saul, as Shimei thought, yet David had other sins, and other transgressions, for which he might be afflicted, and so looked upon Shimei as a scourge to humble him for them. Therefore say, Though the things laid to my charge be false, yet there are other failings, other infirmities that the world knoweth not of, which God strikes at by this mans tongue, or rather the devil in that man.
Secondly, Consider, whether it be not for some other sinnes, that such men are made adversaries against thee: For you must know, God hath a wise ordering ⟨p. 431⟩of all mens hearts and tongues, even in reference to thee; and as David when Shimei railed on him, said, 2 Sam. 16. The Lord hath bid him, So whatsoever wicked men do concerning thee, thou must say, The Lord hath bid him. Now though David was not guilty of those sins Shimei reviled him with; neither did the Lord bring him in distresse for his quarrel with Saul, as Shimei thought, yet David had other sins, and other transgressions, for which he might be afflicted, and so looked upon Shimei as a scourge to humble him for them. Therefore say, Though the things laid to my charge be false, yet there are other failings, other infirmities that the world knoweth not of, which God strikes at by this mans tongue, or rather the devil in that man.