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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, The frequent meditating on this, that we are not of the world will make us admirably love and commend the Grace of God: For whose heart will not move within him when he shall consider how many thousands of the world live and die in that worldly disposition, yet God hath separated me from it? Yea, how many of thy acquaintance, of thy Kindred, of thy near Friends, are yet of the world, and thou art not? So that the experimental knowledge of this will fill thy heart and mouth with joy and praises; God hath in this done more for thee, then if he had given thee the whole world.
Thirdly, The frequent meditating on this, that we are not of the world will make us admirably love and commend the Grace of God: For whose heart will not move within him when he shall consider how many thousands of the world live and die in that worldly disposition, yet God hath seperated me from it? Yea, how many of thy acquaintance, of thy Kindred, of thy near Friends, are yet of the world, and thou art not? So that the experimental knowledge of this will fill thy heart and mouth with joy and praises; God hath in this done more for thee, then if he had given thee the whole world.
Fourthly, The knowing and thinking this that they are not of the world will make them be content and patient under the afflictions and troubles they meet with in the world; For seeing they are not of the world they matter not how it is with them; Their happiness and misery is not bound up in this Orb; They are Pilgrims and Strangers, and no wonder if such do not matter the accommodations ⟨p. 457⟩they find in the way;1 If they come to an unfurnished Inn they will make a shift, they will say, it is but for a night, and thus if we are not of the world, though God lay this chastisement upon us, though he raise up that trouble against us, yet it's but a night, they are not of this Country, and therefore cannot be undone here.