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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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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.
1But you will ask, Is it never lawful to pray unto God, that he would take us out of the world? May we not desire to die, and to be freed from sin? Are we not to pray that Christ would come? To this I answer,
1But you will ask, Is it never lawfull to pray unto God, that he would take us out of the world? May we not desire to die, and to be freed from sin? Are we not to pray that Christ would come? To this I answer,
- 1Quest. Whether it be lawful to pray for deathQuest. Whether it be lawfull to pray for death
1First, It's never lawful to desire to go out of the world from impatience or discontent, because we have troubles and vexations in this world. Thus Elijah sinned, when he prayed to God to take away his life, for this was through the discontent ⟨p. 443⟩then upon him: So Job, when he breaketh forth into those dreadful imprecations about himself, expostulating with God, Why life was continued to such, who sought for death more then for hid treasures. Look then to this, that no impatient discontented thoughts make thee weary of this world.
1First, It's never lawfull to desire to go out of the world from impatiency or discontent, because we have troubles and vexations in this world. Thus Elijah sinned, when he prayed to God to take away his life, for this was through the discontent ⟨p. 443⟩