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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. Is God the only true God? Then let those that know him and obey him, walk with all comfort and encouragement: He is the true God, and so will never fail thee; he hath a twofold truth, first, a truth of his essence, he is God and none else beside him; and opposite to this an Idol is called a lye, and nothing: How should this support us, that the God whom we serve is God indeed! How often did the Prophets bid the Idolaters fly to their Idols, pray to their Idols, and see if they could help them? As he is thus true in his Essence, called therefore the living God, so he is also true in his Promise, in his Word; and this the Scripture speaks of often: and although his Promise be of it self true that we need not doubt, yet he added his Oath also, that so we might not be shaken in our mind. Though it be said of man, he is a liar, and there is no trust to be put in the great one of the world, yet in God there is no change, or shadow of change. Though therefore the Olive tree fail, and the Fig tree do not blossom, Hab. 3.17. though every thing in this world lieth and proveth false, yet thou mayest put confidence in God.
13. Is God the onely true God? Then let those that know him and obey him, walk with all comfort and encouragement: He is the true God, and so will never fail thee; he hath a twofold truth, first, a truth of his essence, he is God and none else beside him; and opposite to this an Idol is called a lye, and nothing: How should this support us, that the God whom we serve is God indeed! How often did the Prophets bid the Idolaters fly to their Idols, pray to their Idols, and see if they could help them? As he is thus true in his Essence, called therefore the living God, so he is also true in his Promise, in his Word; and this the Scripture speaks of often: and although his Promise be of it self true that we need not doubt, yet he added his Oath also, that so we might not be shaken in our minde. Though it be said of man, he is a liar, and there is no trust to be put in the great one of the world, yet in God there is no change, or shadow of change. Though therefore the Olive tree fail, and the Fig tree do not blossom, Hab. 3.17. though every thing in this world lieth and proveth false, yet thou maiest put confidence in God.