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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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SERMON XX. Showeth who they are that cannot at the close of their days take comfort in this, That they have finished the work God gave them to do: As also what things, if not avoided, will much diminish the comfort of the Godly ones at that day.
SERMON XX. Sheweth who they are that cannot at the close of their daies take comfort in this, That they have finished the work God gave them to do: As also what things, if not avoided, will much diminish the comfort of the Godly ones at that day.
JOH. 17.4. I have glorified thee on earth, &c.
The Doctrine observed was, That it is a most blessed and happy thing in the close of our days to be able to say upon good grounds, We have finished the work God gave us to do. You have heard particulars illustrating it, and the grounds of the point: I shall now amplify this, and in the first place show, Who they are that cannot with any comfort, or very little be able to say thus: For although this truth in the general be very terrible,1 yet in the particular it loseth its edge, because every man is a self-flatterer: Every one is apt to think, I have done Gods work, and therefore it will be well with me. If therefore it be possible, my endeavour shall be that this arrow of Gods truth may enter in at the joints of thy armour, seeing it cannot any where else. Consider then who they are that may say they are dogs and not children, so that this bread doth not belong to them.