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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.
In the second general place, It's good to remind our selves often that we are not of the world hereby to press our selves to a Non-conformity and Non-compliance with it, Rom. 12. Be not conformed to the world but transformed in your mind; We are not to love or delight in what the evil world doth, We are not to do as they do; Though it be the greater part, and though a multitude go that way, yea, though all the world go in an evil way, and though but one man yet thou wilt not symbolize with it; And truly this we ought to press upon our selves, how often are we ready to say with that man concerning the Masse, Eamus ad communem errorem, Let us go to the common Error, Who will swim against the stream? Who is like that River Alpheus that though it empty it self in the Sea, yet keeps its own sweetness, and is not infected with the saltness of that water? Oh what a comfortable Testimony of grace is it, to be such an one that the world neither by its flatteries or its frowns is able to put thee out of a good path.
In the second general place, It's good to reminde our selves often that we are not of the world hereby to presse our selves to a Non-conformity and Non-compliance with it, Rom. 12. Be not conformed to the world but transformed in your minde; We are not to love or delight in what the evil world doth, We are not to do as they do; Though it be the greater part, and though a multitude go that way, yea, though all the world go in an evil way, and though but one man yet thou wilt not symbolize with it; And truly this we ought to presse upon our selves, how often are we ready to say with that man concerning the Masse, Eamus ad communem errorem, Let us go to the common Errour, Who will swim against the stream? Who is like that River Alpheus that though it empty it self in the Sea, yet keeps its own sweetnesse, and is not infected with the saltnesse of that water? Oh what a comfortable Testimony of grace is it, to be such an one that the world neither by its flatteries or its frowns is able to put thee out of a good path.