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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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Sermon 12: A Consideration of Eternal Life compared with this present life, And with its contrary,…
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2. This life as it is short so it is full of troubles and miseries; 1Few and evil have my days been, said Jacob, Gen. 49.9. though a godly man who had sometimes the presence of God immediately refreshing him in this Pilgrimage. It hath been the saying of some, That if they were to live the life they have lived, over again; They would not accept of such an offer, because the water of it hath been more then the wine, the gall then the honey: Hence Job saith, Man that is born of a woman is for adversity as the sparks fly upwards, Job 5.7. Nothing is so connatural and proper for man as to be miserable: Compare then Eternity with this where all evil is done away: Nothing but glory and fullness of abundance; Eternal and happy may the Saints glorified say, their days are; Yet here again is a great discovery of every wicked mans madness, To have a few evil days, wherein thou hast more vexation then comfort, thou wilt lose this eternal blessed life, and if thou sayest, I hope not so, I do not intend to do so, that will not avail thee, for this eternal life is vouchsafed to none, but those that repent of, and wholly forsake their sins; Never then blind thy eyes, and delude thy self with vain hopes; Thou for thy sins sake dost voluntarily refuse this eternal life.
2. This life as it is short so it is full of troubles and miseries; 1Few and evil have my daies been, said Jacob, Gen. 49.9. though a godly man who had sometimes the presence of God immediatly refreshing him in this Pilgrimage. It hath been the saying of some, That if they were to live the life they have lived, over again; They would not accept of such an offer, because the water of it hath been more then the wine, the gall then the honey: Hence Job saith, Man that is born of a woman is for adversity as the sparks fly upwards, Job 5.7. Nothing is so connatural and proper for man as to be miserable: Compare then Eternity with this where all evil is done away: Nothing but glory and fulnesse of abundance; Eternal and happy may the Saints glorified say, their daies are; Yet here again is a great discovery of every wicked mans madnesse, To have a few evil daies, wherein thou hast more vexation then comfort, thou wilt lose this eternal blessed life, and if thou saist, I hope not so, I do not intend to do so, that will not avail thee, for this eternal life is vouchsafed to none, but those that repent of, and wholly forsake their sinnes; Never then blinde thy eyes, and delude thy self with vain hopes; Thou for thy sinnes sake dost voluntarily refuse this eternal life.