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 25: Of the Promises, and of Prayer.

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Therefore 7. As long as God keeps up our heart in a praying way so long there is hope of the accomplishment of the mercy we pray for: Thou preparest the heart and hearest with the ear, saith David, Psa. 10.17. Not but that in some temporal mercies the soul may be kept long in a praying waiting frame, and yet the mercy it self be never given us, but then it will be with us as with Paul, My grace is sufficient for thee, 2 Cor. 12. So that still God is good to thee though thou hast not that thou prayest for, if a praying frame of heart be on thee; on the other side, it's an heavy defection not to be able or willing to pray: I speak not of a tempted Christian, who prayeth even while he saith he doth not, he cannot pray, but of those who by their sins have made themselves as a barren Wilderness, and the heavens like brass.

Therefore 7. As long as God keeps up our heart in a praying way so long there is hope of the accomplishment of the mercy we pray for: Thou preparest the heart and hearest with the ear, saith David, Psa. 10.17. Not but that in some temporal mercies the soul may be kept long in a praying waiting frame, and yet the mercy it self be never given us, but then it will be with us as with Paul, My grace is sufficient for thee, 2 Cor. 12. So that still God is good to thee though thou hast not that thou praiest for, if a praying frame of heart be on thee; on the other side, it's an heavy defection not to be able or willing to pray: I speak not of a tempted Christian, who praieth even while he saith he doth not, he cannot pray, but of those who by their sins have made themselves as a barren Wildernesse, and the heavens like brasse.

:631p. 139§VII

In the next place let us consider why God who hath purposed and promised to do such things,

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SERMON XXVI. Of Heavenly Glory as opposed to Earthly; And how the hopes thereof earnestly sought and prayed for will comfort a man against the fear and in the midst, of all Trials and Afflictions.