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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.
13. Consider this deeply, that upon this little moment we have here depends all eternity. Thou hast a short brittle life in this world, and upon the good improvement of this depends all eternity. Oh the searchings and turnings of heart this particular should make in you; My everlasting condition, that estate which is to be for ever and ever, it wholly hangs upon this uncertain life. It may be thou hast but a day, an hour to live longer, and all thy eternity depends on this: Oh men foolish and unwise, who will not lay these things more to heart. God hath given us a candle to work by, a short day we have to improve, and if this pass over thy head, then comes unchangeable eternity. As at thy death thou art cast for eternal life or everlasting torments, so it must be without ever any recovery or alteration. Oh how precious should thy time be, how dear should every day every hour be, all this hath influence into eternity. Well might the Apostle, Ephes. 5.16. command us to redeem the time. Time is the most precious jewel in the world, eternity depends on it, ⟨p. 69⟩and therefore wilt thou let thy lusts or wicked companions steal away this jewel that is more worth then all the world? Oh let us so live every day, every hour as those that say, as I do now, so will eternity be to me.
13. Consider this deeply, that upon this little moment we have here depends all eternity. Thou hast a short brittle life in this world, and upon the good improvement of this depends all eternity. Oh the searchings and turnings of heart this particular should make in you; My everlasting condition, that estate which is to be for ever and ever, it wholly hangs upon this uncertain life. It may be thou hast but a day, an hour to live longer, and all thy eternity depends on this: Oh men foolish and unwise, who will not lay these things more to heart. God hath given us a candle to work by, a short day we have to improve, and if this passe over thy head, then comes unchangeable eternity. As at thy death thou art cast for eternall life or everlasting torments, so it must be without ever any recovery or alteration. Oh how precious should thy time be, how dear should every day every hour be, all this hath influence into eternity. Well might the Apostle,