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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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3. Rejoice, because God and Christ will hereby be endeared unto thee, and give thee larger supplies and provisions of comfort. Nihil crus sentit in ligno, quando animus est in Coelo, I will be with thee in the fire and water, saith God. Was not Peter singing of Psalms in the prison: Oh then know this is the time of Gods peculiar love, of his more merciful approaches to thee, thy winter will be thy summer, thy outward troubles will be accompanied with the most inward joys. This is Gods way, when the world most slanders and accuseth, to give the believer strongest evidences of his Justification within. The godly were most enlarged in soul, when they were shut into straightest prison, and they had most of a bright glorious Heaven, when they were plunged into a dark dungeon, thy incomes will be rich, when thy expenses shall be great, the more men frown, the more will God smile on thee.
3. Rejoyce, because God and Christ will hereby be indeared unto thee, and give thee larger supplies and provisions of comfort. Nihil crus sentit in ligno, quando animus est in Coelo, I will be with thee in the fire and water, saith God. Was not Peter singing of Psalms in the prison: Oh then know this is the time of Gods peculiar love, of his more mercifull approaches to thee, thy winter will be thy summer, thy outward troubles will be accompanied with the most inward joyes. This is Gods way, when the world most slanders and accuseth, to give the believer strongest evidences of his Justification within. The godly were most enlarged in soul, when they were shut into straightest prison, and they had most of a bright glorious Heaven, when they were plunged into a dark dungeon, thy incomes will be rich, when thy expences shall be great, the more men frown, the more will God smile on thee.
4. Rejoice, because hereby is a conformity to Christ, and to all the holy men that have gone before thee. So in Mat. 5.12. Rejoice, because so persecuted they th• Prophets of old? and