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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.
Lastly, They are not of the world in respect of their Conversation, Rom. 12. they are not conformed to the fashion of the world, The one goeth Westward, the other Eastward as it were, Their words and language are different, their actions are contrary, What the Righteous man loveth, the wicked abominateth, and what the wicked loveth the godly man abhorreth; Thus as they say of the heavens, the primum mobile hath one motion of its own, and the inferior Orbs a contrary motion to that; Thus the godly man he moveth one way toward heaven, ⟨p. 437⟩he presseth hard thither, The wicked man he maketh as much haste to hell, So as there were two struggling in the Mothers womb, which increased her pain: Thus there are two striving upon the face of the world, an Isaac and an Ismael, a Jacob and an Esau, the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent: This enmity will not be extinct in this life.
Lastly, They are not of the world in respect of their Conversation, Rom. 12. they are not conformed to the fashion of the world, The one goeth Westward, the other Eastward as it were, Their words and language are different, their actions are contrary, What the Righteous man loveth, the wicked abominateth, and what the wicked loveth the godly man abhorreth; Thus as they say of the heavens, the primum mobile hath one motion of its own, and the inferiour Orbes a contrary motion to that; Thus the godly man he moveth one way toward heaven, ⟨p. 437⟩he presseth hard thither, The wicked man he maketh as much haste to hell, So as there were two strugling in the Mothers womb, which encreased her pain: Thus there are two striving upon the face of the world, an Isaac and an Ismael, a Jacob and an Esau, the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent: This enmity will not be extinct in this life.