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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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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.
6. Remember this likewise, 1that it's far better thou hadst never been born then to miss of this eternal life. It had been far more easy to have been an abortive, or that the womb had been thy sepulchre and grave, then to live here, and at last to dye thus eternally. Shall Job and Jeremiah so passionately curse the time of their lives, and wish there had been no day or sun, and only because of some temporal extremity, which yet did not endure very long? what outcries and wishes shall these have who are to dye eternally, and yet shall never dye? Job speaks of some that desire death, Job 3.21. but cannot have it; thus shall all those deprived of eternal life call to mountains and hills to cover them, bite the tongue with madness, and call for death to devour them, but it cannot be. Though Judas could make away himself out of this hell he had here, yet he cannot out of the hell afterwards.
6. Remember this likewise, 1that it's farre better thou hadst never been born then to misse of this eternall life. It had been farre more easie to have been an abortive, or that the womb had been thy sepulchre and grave, then to live here, and at last to dye thus eternally. Shall Job and Jeremiah so passionately curse the time of their lives, and wish there had been no day or sunne, and only because of some temporall extremity, which yet did not endure very long? what outcries and wishes shall these have who are to dye eternally, and yet shall never dye? Job speaks of some that desire death, Job 3.21. but cannot have it; thus shall all those deprived of eternall life call to mountains and hils to cover them, bite the tongue with madnesse, and call for death to devour them, but it cannot be. Though Judas could make away himself out of this hell he had here, yet he cannot out of the hell afterwards.
- 16. Better a man had not been born then to miss of eternal life.6. Better a man had not been born then to misse of eternall life.