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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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1Lastly, God who is thus the object of this Eternal life, is the proper, peculiar, and convenient good; No object is so suitable and adequate to the heart as he is, howsoever moral Philosophers say, good is the object of the will, yet they say, It's not good in the general or absolute, but that which is proportionable and convenient; The sick man desireth health, because it's the good proportionable to his wants, so the tormented man, ease; Thus although it be true that since man is fallen and corrupted with sin, God is not proportionable or suitable to him; Hence wicked men are said to hate God, Exod. 20. yet take we man according to his Creation, and the Image of God first planted in him, and so God was his ultimate end, in him only could he have full complacency, and so as far as we are regenerated and this holy Image restored in us, Nothing can satisfy us but God, We see David in many of his Psalm•, he discovers several extremities and necessities upon him, yet the only cure is the light of his countenance; Let God look graciously on him, let him draw near to him, and then the troublesome waves are presently quiet.
1Lastly, God who is thus the object of this Eternall life, is the proper, peculiar, and convenient good; No object is so sutable and adequate to the heart as he is, howsoever morall Philosophers say, good is the object of the will, yet they say, It's not good in the generall or absolute, but that which is proportionable and convenient; The sick man desireth health, because it's the good proportionable to his wants, so the tormented man, ease; Thus although it be true that since man is fallen and corrupted with sinne, God is not proportionable or sutable to him; Hence wicked men are said to hate God, Exod. 20. yet take we man according to his Creation, and the Image of God first planted in him, and so God was his ultimate end, in him only could he have full complacency, and so as farre as we are regenerated and this holy Image restored in us, Nothing can satisfie us but God, We see David in many of his Psalm•, he discovers severall extremities and necessities upon him, yet the only cure is the light of his countenance; Let God look graciously on him, let him draw near to him, and then the troublesome waves are presently quiet.