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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 84: Of Conformity to Christ in not being of the world, And in his Sufferings.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. What it is to be of the world.
2. How Christ was not.
3.The similitude between Christ and his Disciples herein. To be of the world, is to partake of the manners, life, and conversation of the world, to have the spirit of the world in a man,1 and this is opposite to the Spirit of God, and to all heavenly things, so that both the inward inclination, and outward conversation is wholly worldly, as our Saviour saith, he that is of the earth, is earthy; That as bodies in whom the element of the Earth is predominant, do naturally fall downward, so that soul which is thus principled and habituated in a worldly manner, doth mind only earthly things; this is to be of the world. To be in the world is another thing: Our Saviour and the Disciples were in the world, but not of it: A man may be in the water for some good end, but the fish ⟨p. 435⟩are properly of the water because that is their Element, and they have a watery Constitution.
3.The similitude between Christ and his Disciples herein. To be of the world, is to partake of the manners, life, and conversation of the world, to have the spirit of the world in a man,1 and this is oppsite to the Spirit of God, and to all heavenly things, so that both the inward inclination, and outward conversation is wholly worldly, as our Saviour saith, he that is of the earth, is earthy; That as bodies in whom the element of the Earth is predominant, doe naturally fall downward, so that soul which is thus principled and habituated in a worldly manner, doth minde only earthly things; this is to be of the world. To be in the world is another thing: Our Saviour and the Disciples were in the world, but not of it: A man may be in the water for some good end, but the fish