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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 87: That God hath determined a precise time to every particular man in the world, how long…
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Though we have gathered the full vintage of this Text, yet there remain some gleanings, of which we may say with the Prophet, a blessing is in it.
THough we have gathered the full vintage of this Text, yet there remain some gleanings, of which we may say with the Prophet, a blessing is in it.
Two remarkable truths there are implied, the first in the Negative, the second in the Positive part. In the first, in the Negative, I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world. We may observe,
That God hath the dominion and immediate disposing of our being and continuance in this world. When his day is come, when his Decree is expired,1 then none can withstand; when he commands to return to the dust from whence we came, or shall say, This night thy soul shall be taken away, there cannot be any gainsaying. This truth is the more to be regarded, because it hath been doctrinally agitated by learned men, Whether there be an immovable term of life in this world prefixed to every man? and then practically it is of great concernment, as is to be showed.
That God hath the dominion and immediate disposing of our being and continuance in this world. When his day is come, when his Decree is expired,1 then none can withstand; when he commands to return to the dust from whence we came, or shall say, This night thy soul shall be taken away, there cannot be any gainsaying. This truth is the more to be regarded, because it hath been doctrinally agitated by learned men, Whether there be an immovable term of life in this world prefixed to every man? and then practically it is of great concernment, as is to be shewed.