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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.
Again, There is not the second intermission of this happiness; for there is no night, no sleep nor drowsiness, but it is a waking, joyful life to all Eternity: Alas, if here we should have the most desirable comforts that can be, yet we would call for a time to sleep, they could not keep us alive without this bodily Rest; but there the body is made so glorious a body that it's no more capable of sleep, then it is of hunger or thirst; Oh then happy and thrice happy is that life where thou shalt not for a moment be taken off from God. It's impossible for the godly in this life to have an actual love and complacency in God, never to be distracted or diverted by other thoughts, something or other comes and steals the heart away, and layeth the dead child in the room of the living one, but then we shall have a constant intuitive beholding of God, and nothing shall withdraw us from him, Thus it is not to be interrupted.
Again, There is not the second intermission of this happinesse; for there is no night, no sleep nor drousinesse, but it is a waking, joyful life to all Eternity: Alas, if here we should have the most desirable comforts that can be, yet we would call for a time to sleep, they could not keep us alive without this bodily Rect; but there the body is made so glorious a body that it's no more capable of sleep, then it is of hunger or thirst; Oh then happy and thrice happy is that life where thou shalt not for a moment be taken off from God. It's impossible for the godly in this life to have an actual love and complacency in God, never to be distracted or diverted by other thoughts, something or other comes and steals the heart away, and laieth the dead childe in the room of the living one, but then we shall have a constant intuitive beholding of God, and nothing shall withdraw us from him, Thus it is not to be interrupted.
2.1 In this life there is an affluence and an accumulation of all things to make it blessed; The very Philosophers thought happiness must be such a state wherein was an aggravation of all good things, so that if a man could have all good things, and want but one, he could not be called an happy man; Hence in the Scripture the Hebrew word for happiness is in the plural number, because