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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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5. If Gods providence reach to the least▪ and minute things that are, 1much more to the taking of a mans life out of the world Mat. 6. The Sparrow falls not to the ground without Gods providence. Not a bird is killed without his appointment, and shall man die without it? yea the hairs of our head are numbered; and shall not an hair fall from an head without his appointment, and shall the head it self? This is so clear, that we would wonder any learned men should deny a prefixed term of our life.
5. If Gods providence reach to the least▪ and minute things that are, 1much more to the taking of a mans life out of the world Mat. 6. The Sparrow fals not to the ground without Gods providence. Not a bird is killed without his appointment, and shall man die without it? yea the hairs of our head are numbred; and shall not an hair fall from an head without his appointment, and shall the head it self? This is so clear, that we would wonder any learned men should deny a prefixed term of our life.
- 1Argum. 5.
Lastly, Our abiding in this world must be of Gods appointment, because all the providential passages and works of God, are subservient to his predestination. 1So that our predestination might have been frustrated, if God did not appoint all our lives ⟨p. 452⟩