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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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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.
1These things thus urged, let us answer that Objection, Seeing God hath promised one heart, and one way, and Christ hath also thus earnestly prayed for it, who is not denied any thing by the Father, how is it there are so many breaches amongst the godly? That we may cry out contrarily to the Psalmist, Behold how sad and destructive a thing it is for brethren to be at discord one with another, how comes it about that the godly do no more remember of what spirit they are? That they consider not the Spirit of God descended in the shape of a Dove, That Babel was to be built by confusion of tongues, but Jerusalem without any noise of the hammer, and therefore Solomon must build the Temple, not David, because he had been a man of war.
1These things thus urged, let us answer that Objection, Seeing God hath promised one heart, and one way, and Christ hath also thus earnestly praied for it, who is not denied any thing by the Father, how is it there are so many breaches amongst the godly? That we may cry out contrarily to the Psalmist, Behold how sad and destructive a thing it is for brethren to be at discord one with another, how comes it about that the godly do no more remember of what spirit they are? That they consider not the Spirit of God descended in the shape of a Dove, That Babel was to be built by confusion of tongues, but Jerusalem without any noise of the hammer, and therefore Solomon must build the Temple, not David, because he had been a man of war.
- 1Quest. Seeing God hath promised one heart and way, and Christ prayed for it, how comes it to pass there are so many breaches among the godly.Quest. Seeing God hath promised one heart and way, and Christ praied for it, how comes it to passe there are so many breaches among the godly.
That this may not scandalize any, Consider these things.