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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In the next place let us consider why God who hath purposed and promised to do such things,¹ yet requireth our prayers for the accomplishment of them.

In the next place let us consider why God who hath purposed and promised to do such things,¹ yet requireth our praiers for the accomplishment of them.

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:632p. 139§VII

And the first may be general from the goodness of God who loveth to communicate himself,¹ and therefore though he could do all things without second causes and means, yet he is pleased to use them, not from indigence but indulgence; So that as we see in all natural effects that are produced, God doth not those things immediately himself but hath second causes and means whereby they are completed, So it is here; God in the wonderful things he hath predestinated or promised for his people, hath appointed means for the performance of them; Hence as he converts by the Word, so he bestoweth his mercy upon a praying people; This reason is common with all other his works in the world,² but then the more proper and peculiar Reasons for prayer are,

And the first may be generall from the goodnesse of God who loveth to communicate himself,¹ and therefore though he could do all things without second causes and means, yet he is pleased to use them, not from indigence but indulgence; So that as we see in all natural effects that are produced, God doth not those things immediatly himself but hath second causes and means whereby they are compleated, So it is here; God in the wonderfull things he hath predestinated or promised for his people, hath appointed means for the performance of them; Hence as he converts by the Word, so he bestoweth his mercy upon a praying people; This reason is common with all other his works in the world,

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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.