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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.
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 first place, Remember faith, without which it can do no more good then excellent medicines, if they be not applied, set faith a work, and then the word of God will powerfully work upon thee. It's with thee as thou believest. Believe, and those high mountains of lusts shall be thrown down.
2. Bring an humble, tender and trembling heart at the teaching of it. Such an heart King Josiah had, and he is commended for it, yea Ezra 9.4. it's the character of the godly to tremble at his Word. The hard heart, no more then the hard Rock, can receive the seed sown into it.
2. Bring an humble, tender and trembling heart at the teaching of it. Such an heart King Josias had, and he is commended for it, yea Ezra 9.4. it's the character of the godly to tremble at his Word. The hard heart, no more then the hard Rock, can receive the seed sown into it.
3. It's not enough to receive the Word of God at first, but keep it there. The Apostle Peter calls it, the engrafted Word, the Word that turneth us into the nature of it, that we are walking Bibles, as great Scholars are called walking Libraries. David said, He had hid Gods word in his heart; This is the leaven that will diffuse it self.
3. It's not enough to receive the Word of God at first, but keep it there. The Apostle Peter cals it, the ingraffed Word, the Word that turneth us into the nature of it, that we are walking Bibles, as great Schollers are called walking Libraries. David said, He had hid Gods word in his heart; This is the leaven that will diffuse it self.