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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 26: Of Heavenly Glory as opposed to Earthly; And how the hopes thereof earnestly sought and…
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3. It's to be the comfort and support of the godly in this valley of tears and death;1 Did we not expect glory to come we should look upon our selves as most miserable.
- 1Things implied in the doctrine.
1But of the first The nature of this glory, and that is expressed first in the Text, a glory with Gods own self, and that doth imply these particulars.
- 1I. The nature of this glory, viz. with God himself, which implies,
1. That it is a glory in the hand of God, to dispose and give to him whom he pleaseth; You see Christ himself beggeth for this at Gods hand: None can violently invade this glory or break into those heavenly mansions whether God will or no, all heavenly glory is with God, who is therefore called the God of glory, 1or glorious; not only because he is glorious in himself, but because he is the bountiful author and dispenser of all glory, as the Sun is the Fountain of all light, so then it's not in the power of any earthly Potentate to make men thus glorious; Though Ahasuerus could make Haman and Mordecai outwardly glorious, yet for this heavenly glory the greatest powers of the world need it from God as well as the poorest beggar.