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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.
2 Here is Consolation, Because they have the fit qualification of those who come under Christs Prayer; You see that which makes Christ so earnestly commend them jo his Father, is because they are not of the world, The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man prevails much, how much more will Christs prayer?
2 Here is Consolation, Because they have the fit qualification of theso who come under Christs Praier; You see that which makes Christ so earnestly commend them io his Father, is because they are not of the world, The effectual fervent praier of a righteous man prevails much, how much more will Christs praier?
3. Here is Consolation, That because we are not of the world,1 therefore God will at last take us out of it to Eternal glory; The godly are of heaven, and heaven is their proper place; That as it's said of our body, Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return, So, of heaven thou art, and to heaven thou shalt return.
- 13. And that God will ere long take them out of the world.
Use 1 Use of Exhortation to the Children of God, Art thou not of the world then dwell on this, improve this, do not make thy self like a worldling, Are they proud, passionate, earthy, envious? Do thou abhor to be so, Shall such a man as I make my self like the vile ones of the Earth? Neither be thou daunted, because the world revileth, rageth, and walketh contrary to thee, Shall the Star leave its glory and come to be a clod of Earth? Say with the Olive-Tree and Fig-Tree, Shall I leave my fatness, and become a bramble or a briar? It's the envy and malice of the world that sets against thee, such soar eyes cannot abide any dazzling lustre.