CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 1: The Necessity of adding Prayer to Preaching for its good effect: Showing also what kind…Sermon 1: The Necessity of adding Prayer to Preaching for its good effect: Shewing also what kind…

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:45p. 3¶2

2. On Gods part we are therefore to pray, ¹that so all the glory and praise in every thing may redound to him, so 1 Cor. 1. that he who glorieth may glory in God only; Hence it is that as in the Old Testament we read of many good women, and they were most of them barren, to humble them, and that they might see it was not their goodness but Gods glory and power to give them children; So it is here, God many times causeth not the best and choicest Ministers, to be fruitful in conversion of others, to be able to say, Behold I and the Children which thou hast given me, that hereby all the glory may be attributed to God only.

2. On Gods part we are therefore to pray, ¹that so all the glory and praise in every thing may redound to him, so 1 Cor. 1. that he who glorieth may glory in God only; Hence it is that as in the Old Testament we reade of many good women, and they were most of them barren, to humble them, and that they might see it was not their goodnesse but Gods glory and power to give them children; So it is here, God many times causeth not the best and choicest Ministers, to be fruitfull in conversion of others, to be able to say, Behold I and the Children which thou hast given me, that hereby all the glory may be attributed to God onely.

12. That all the praise may redound to him.

:46p. 3¶3

3. Therefore after all doctrinal Instructions is Prayer to be used, ¹because God in anger many times for mens sins doth blast the Word to them, doth not give them a tender and an understanding heart; Oh then how much is he to be sought to that hath the key of all mens hearts, that openeth and none can shut that shutteth and none can open,

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