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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.
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.
In the negative part, we may consider the thing denied in his prayer, That God should take them out of the world, for so God might take them, either by a miraculous and sudden translation, as he did Enoch and Elijah, or by a violent death through the hands of their persecutors, or in a natural ordinary course, but saith our Saviour, I pray not for this, [Greek or Hebrew]; The word is for the most part used of an interrogation to question about any thing, but sometimes simply for rogation, or a mere bare asking and petitioning,1 as often by this Evangelist. From this Negative part we may observe,
In the negative part, we may consider the thing denied in his prayer, That God should take them out of the world, for so God might take them, either by a miraculous and sudden translation, as he did Henoch and Eliah, or by a violent death through the hands of their persecutors, or in a natural ordinary course, but saith our Saviour, I pray not for this, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; The word is for the most part used of an interrogation to question about any thing, but sometimes simply for rogation, or a meer bare asking and petitioning,1 as often by this Evangelist. From this Negative part we may observe,
- 1Observ. That though God love his people, yet that doth not necessarily infer, he must keep them from all misery in this world, and place them immediately in happiness with himself.Observ. That though God love his people, yet that doth not necessarily inferre, he must keep them from all misery in this world, and place them immediately in happiness with himself.
First, That though God love his people, yet that doth not necessarily infer he must keep them from all misery in this world, and place them immediately in happiness with himself. This is good to be taken notice of, for we are ready to think, that if God love his children, he should presently do that for them, which will be their chiefest happiness, especially this being in his power to do it when he will; to suffer his children to be grappling and conflicting with troubles in this world, when it's but his word speaking, and crowns of glory may be set upon their heads, seemeth inconsistent with Gods love, as she argued to Sampson, How canst thou love me, and hide any thing from me? So saith humane reason,