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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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3. The people of God, though they have a spiritual life within them, yet under desertions and temptations find not the Word of God effectual for joy and consolations, till God bring such texts, and such promises close to their soul. That we, saith Paul, through the Scriptures might have consolations, 2 Cor. 1. And David doth often acknowledge, That the word of God did comfort and revive him; but let a godly man groaning under the guilt of sin, hear the sound of the Gospel a thousand times over, yet he will remain like dried bones, and a parched wilderness, till God sanctify it: Oh how often have the people of God desired comfort and assurance, read over the promises again and again, gone to the Ministers of the Gospel to have oil poured in their wounds, yet not the Law, but even the Gospel hath been made a dead letter, till the Spirit of God doth comfort in and by it, the Word then of God, though instrumental, yet is but instrumental, it's not a principal.
3. The people of God, though they have a spiritual life within them, yet under desertions and temptations finde not the Word of God effectual for joy and consolations, till God bring such texts, and such promises close to their soul. That we, saith Paul, through the Scriptures might have consolations, 2 Cor. 1. And David doth often acknowledge, That the word of God did comfort and revive him; but let a godly man groaning under the guilt of sinne, hear the sound of the Gospel a thousand times over, yet he will remain like dried bones, and a parched wilderness, till God sanctifie it: Oh how often have the people of God desired comfort and assurance, read over the promises again and again, gone to the Ministers of the Gospel to have oyl poured in their wounds, yet not the Law, but even the Gospel hath been made a dead letter, till the Spirit of God doth comfort in and by it, the Word then of God, though instrumental, yet is but instrumentall, it's not a principal.