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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.
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.
Thirdly,1 The man that remembers he is not of the world dareth not sin against God to obtain the greatest advantages here below; This doth necessarily follow from the former, For if once he be so heavenly as to love God and Christ better then all, then he will do nothing that he may lose them: He will not be so foolish as to take Dirt, and to lose Gold: Hence those Hearers that had the Cares of the world choking the good Seed, and those Apostates that fell off in Persecution, all these did serve Mammon, and not God, for when it comes to this, here is an offer and choice, either I must lose God or this worldly advantage: If thou wilt take the present world and leave Christ, this cannot stand with an Heavenly heart: I do not speak of some particular passages, for the Flesh sometimes overcometh the Spirit, but of an habitual and constant course; Therefore it was a full discovery that Moses was not of the world, when he chose the Reproaches of Christ rather then all the Treasures of Egypt: This an earthly heart would never have done.
Thirdly,1 The man that remembers he is not of the world dareth not sinne against God to obtain the greatest advantages here below; This doth necessarily follow from the former, For if once he be so heavenly as to love God and Christ better then all, then he will do nothing that he may lose them: He will not be so foolish as to take Dirt, and to lose Gold: Hence those Hearers that had the Cares of the world choaking the good Seed, and those Apostates that fell off in Persecution, all these did serve Mammon, and not God, for when it comes to this, here is an offer and choice, either I must lose God or this worldly advantage: If thou wilt take the present world and leave Christ, this cannot stand with an Heavenly heart: I do not speak of some particular passages, for the Flesh sometimes overcometh the Spirit, but of an habituall and constant course; Therefore it was a full discovery that Moses was not of the world, when he chose the Reproaches of Christ rather then all the Treasures of Egypt: This an earthly heart would never have done.
- 13. He will not sin against God to obtain great advantages.