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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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4. This phrase doth imply the glory that is in heaven, as oppositely to the work we do on earth; This is that all the Children of God should look after,1 a glory in heaven; This made them long for and hasten the coming of Christ, this made them judge themselves but Pilgrims here, and so to seek out for a better City; Take we heed then that we be not in the Number of those who mind earthly things, that judge nothing glorious but what seems in this world full of greatness and admiration, The state of men living here is a condition of misery and calamity, which made Job say that man who is born of a woman is born for sorrow, as the sparks fly upwards, Job 5.7. So that we may say God makes this life so bitter, that the glory in heaven may be sweeter; Therefore he keeps us a while in this wilderness, that Canaan may be the more prized.
4. This phrase doth imply the glory that is in heaven, as oppositely to the work we do on earth; This is that all the Children of God should look after,1 a glory in heaven; This made them long for and hasten the coming of Christ, this made them judge themselves but Pilgrims here, and so to seek out for a better City; Take we heed then that we be not in the Number of those who minde earthly things, that judge nothing glorious but what seems in this world full of greatness and admiration, The state of men living here is a condition of misery and calamity, which made Job say that man who is born of a woman is born for sorrow, as the sparks fly upwards, Job 5.7. So that we may say God makes this life so bitter, that the glory in heaven may be sweeter; Therefore he keeps us a while in this wildernesse, that Canaan may be the more prized.
- 14. Opposite to earthly glory.