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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 88: The Heavenly man much improved by much considering that he is not of this world.
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.
Obs. That it's good for the People of God often and often to meditate on this, 1That they are not of the world; This is a Truth that unless unfolded and drawn out, We can never see the Excellency of it, unless you rub and pounce this matter into powder, you can never find the sweetness of it if you do not as they did to the Sacrifice open it and cut it in pieces, laying every part by it self methodically, you cannot see the inward excellency of it: The people of God are not of this world, they are in it but not of it, They are [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] Sanctified and set apart from the common use of the world, as in the Jews Pedagogy, Vessels and Garments, and Persons were set apart only for a sacred use; Hence they are compared to Stars that shine in a dark night, thus are they in a crooked Generation, Phil. 2.15. As the Stars are not compounded of sublunary matter, neither are they capable of such destructive alterations,2 as sublunary and material things are, So it should be with the Children of God.
Obs. That it's good for the People of God often and often to meditate on this, 1That they are not of the world; This is a Truth that unlesse unfolded and drawn out, We can never see the Excellency of it, unlesse you rub and pounce this matter into powder, you can never finde the sweetnesse of it if you do not as they did to the Sacrifice open it and cut it in peeces, laying every part by it self methodicaly, you cannot see the inward excellency of it: The people of God are not of this world, they are in it but not of it, They are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sanctified and set apart from the common use of the world, as in the Jews Pedagogy, Vessels and Garments, and Persons were set apart only for a sacred use; Hence they are compared to Starres that shine in a dark night, thus are they in a crooked Generation, Phil. 2.15. As the Starres are not compounded of sublunary matter, neither are they capable of such destructive alterations,