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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 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.
4. Not to be of the world is to partake of other joys, other comforts then the world knoweth of, and so to be exercised with other Temptations then the world understands, with other joys; Therefore it's said, It hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive of this, 1 Cor. 2.9. It's called Joy unspeakable in the holy Ghost, 1 Pet. 1.8. David acknowledged, God had put more joy in his heart then worldly men could have in all their abundance, Psa. 4. Alas, what is thy carnal mirth and delight to that admirable and unspeakable joy which the godly find in God; This is a joy that will hold in tribulations and death it self, when in such a Drought the wicked mans stream is quite dried up, his temptations also are such as the world accounts madness; To be in spiritual desertions, to have no sense of Gods favour, to fear himself a damned Castaway, to have no rest in his bones day or night, To be assaulted with the devils buffetings, to be filled with hideous thoughts, These things the world also knoweth not, and therefore they count them melancholy and mad, Such as by their too much poring about Sermons and good Books put themselves out of their wits.
4. Not to be of the world is to partake of other joys, other comforts then the world knoweth of, and so to be exercised with other Temptations then the world understands, with other joys; Therefore it's said, It hath not entred into the heart of man to conceive of this, 1 Cor. 2.9. It's called Joy unspeakable in the holy Ghost, 1 Pet. 1.8. David acknowledged, God had put more joy in his heart then worldly men could have in all their abundance, Psa. 4. Alas, what is thy carnal mirth and delight to that admirable and unspeakable joy which the godly finde in God; This is a joy that will hold in tribulations and death it self, when in such a Drought the wicked mans stream is quite dried up, his temptations also are such as the world accounts madnesse; To be in spiritual desertions, to have no sence of Gods favour, to fear himself a damned Castaway, to have no rest in his bones day or night, To be assaulted with the devils buffetings, to be filled with hideous thoughts, These things the world also knoweth not, and therefore they count them melancholy and mad, Such as by their too much poring about Sermons and good Books put themselves out of their wits.