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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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1Seventhly, It is a most comely and beautiful thing to see; It's a ravishing thing to behold such an Harmony amongst the godly, therefore the completeness of it will be in Heaven; There those many thousands will all have one heart, and one tongue to praise God; There will be no difference, one shall not have one way of seeing God, another, another way; There will be no censuring, as reproachful terms one against another: Now the nearer the people of God come to this on earth, the more like are they to glorified Saints in Heaven, and those innumerable companies of Angels that do Gods will; They have no jarrings and contests, one Angel is not of one opinion, and another of another; We ought to do Gods will, as they do it, not only in respect of zeal and purity, but unity also. David is affected with it, and one of those Songs of Degrees, is wholly to praise it, Psal. 133.1, 2, 3. It's compared to that precious ointment that was so curiously to be composed, that none might presume to make the like, and it was to be poured on the High-priest only. He compareth it also to the fruitful and pleasant Dew upon the Mountains.
1Seventhly, It is a most comely and beautifull thing to see; It's a ravishing thing to behold such an Harmony amongst the godly, therefore the compleatnesse of it will be in Heaven; There those many thousands will all have one heart, and one tongue to praise God; There will be no difference, one shall not have one way of seeing God, another, another way; There will be no censuring, as reproachfull terms one against another: Now the nearer the people of God come to this on earth, the more like are they to glorified Saints in Heaven, and those innumerable companies of Angels that do Gods will; They have no jarrings and contests, one Angel is not of one opinion, and another of another; We ought to do Gods will, as they doe it, not onely in respect of zeal and purity, but unity also. David is affected with it, and one of those Songs of Degrees, is wholly to praise it, Psal. 133.1, 2, 3. It's compared to that precious ointment that was so curiously to be composed, that none might presume to make the like, and it was to be poured on the High-priest only. He compareth it also to the fruitfull and pleasant Dew upon the Mountains.