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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.
And 1. It's a continued life of happiness;1 There is no interruption or stop put to this joy and comfort, and that is a transcendent thing, for in this life two things intermit our joy.
And 1. It's a continued life of happinesse;1 There is no interruption or stop put to this joy and comfort, and that is a transcendent thing, for in this life two things intermit our joy.
- 11. A continued life of happiness.1. A continued life of happinesse.
1. Occurrent adversities, contrary miseries, our health is taken away by diseases, our wealth by poverty, our hopes by fears, so that every mans life hath more gall then honey.
1. Occurrent adversities, contrary miseries, our health is taken away by diseases, our wealth by poverty, our hopes by fears, so that every mans life hath more gall then hony.
And 2. If there were no opposite calamity, as there was not to Adam, yet there is a natural intermission of it by sleep, so that if we were never so happy, yet as often as we sleep our Sun would be eclipsed, but this happy life we speak of admits of neither of these Interruptions; There cannot be any misery or grief there, for God will wash away all tears from their eyes, and it must needs be so, because all the cause of misery which is sin, is there taken away, so that as there cannot be any thunder or lightning in the upper Region, because the vapours which are the materials of it cannot ascend so high, can have no entrance there, so because no unclean thing, no sinful thing can enter heaven, therefore no evil, no misery, or affliction can come there; This should make us all despise this valley of tears for that Mount of Vision or transfiguration, What is this Wilderness to that Canaan? What are these husks to that Manna? Why are we so hardly plucked out of this world that hath so many thorns and troubles with it, to enter into heaven? where there is no grief, no complaining or discontent at all.