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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 24: Of vain Tautology in Prayer; And what Repetitions in Prayer are such, and what not; She…
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1. That the same matter may be repeated either in sense only but in different words, or else in the very same sense and words; When it's done the former way, we say a man doth [Greek or Hebrew], but not [Greek or Hebrew] In the latter way, unless there be some grave and serious cause, it's a vain Tautology, for the former kind of repetition, the Psalms which are accounted like the Stars in the Scripture Firmament, are very frequent in it; Many verses being the ingemination of the same sense, only in some different words, and this we do not so commonly call a repetition of the same thing, because every new word the holy Ghost hath doth represent some new notion to the understanding, so that it's like the same meat under several dishings, that affords a peculiar taste, or like the Philasophers matter, which they say is always the same, though under divers forms; Now our Saviour in this prayer doth not only use the same matter but the same words, Father glorify thou me.
1. That the same matter may be repeated either insence only but in different words, or else in the very same sence and words; When it's done the former way, we say a man doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 In the latter way, unlesse there be some grave and serious cause, it's a vain Tautology, for the former kinde of repetition, the Psalms which are accounted like the Stars in the Scripture Firmament, are very frequent in it; Many verses being the ingemination of the same sence, only in some different words, and this we do not so commonly call a repetition of the same thing, because every new word the holy Ghost hath doth represent some new notion to the understanding, so that it's like the same meat under several dishings, that affords a peculiar taste, or like the Philasophers matter, which they say is alwaies the same, though under divers forms; Now our Saviour in this praier doth not only use the same matter but the same words, Father glorifie thou me.
2. That in our prayers which are a communion with the great God, we ought to have a diligent attention to several things s Prayer is not slightly, formally, and customarily to be hasted over, but being a divine worship of God, If ever a man would be in an heavenly, holy, fervent and indistracted disposition, it