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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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3. This knowledge of God must draw out those eminent affections of love, joy, delight, and fear of God. You see God in the Scripture is made the proper object of all these affections, as if we had them for nothing but God; our love, that God will have all, Thou shalt love him with all the heart: and so for our fear, that is often required, Sanctify the Lord God, and let him be thy dread: and we are often commanded to rejoice in the Lord: So then seeing God is the proper object of these affections, and we may not place them any where but on him, and things relating thereunto, it behoveth us to see whether our knowledge do thus kindle and inflame us after God or no. Certainly it's the greatest reason that our knowledge should have such Divine operations, for if we know God as he is revealed in his word, he is there discovered to be so great, so glorious, full of all goodness, that we cannot but give him the superiority in all things.
3. This knowledge of God must draw out those eminent affections of love, joy, delight, and fear of God. You see God in the Scripture is made the proper object of all these affections, as if we had them for nothing but God; our love, that God will have all, Thou shalt love him with all the heart: and so for our fear, that is often required, Sanctifie the Lord God, and let him be thy dread: and we are often commanded to rejoyce in the Lord: So then seeing God is the proper object of these affections, and we may not place them any where but on him, and things relating thereunto, it behoveth us to see whether our knowledge do thus kindle and inflame us after God or no. Certainly it's the greatest reason that our knowledge should have such Divine operations, for if we know God as he is revealed in his word, he is there discovered to be so great, so glorious, full of all goodnesse, that we cannot but give him the superiority in all things.
4. Another inward effect must be a melting, sorrowful and grieved heart that we have provoked God by our sins: For who can but grieve and lament his folly, when he knoweth how great and terrible a God he hath provoked: Thus Manasseh, after his great troubles and afflictions laid upon him, when he had prayed, mourned and humbled himself, it's said, Then Manasseh knew that God was the Lord: Then he knew, not before,