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 26: Of Heavenly Glory as opposed to Earthly; And how the hopes thereof earnestly sought and…

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2. It's a full substantial glory; It's called the weight of glory by the Apostle, 2 Cor. 3. It's so full that the heart of man cannot speak or conceive about it; As humane glory is compared to all the empty things that are vapours and bubbles, and a mere breath, a shadow without any substance: So this glory in heaven is a massive weighty glory, it hath all fullness in it, There is fullness of holiness, We are made pure and without the least spot, There is fullness of peace and joy, The Sea is not fuller of waters then their hearts and souls of eternal comforts; There is fullness of all thy desires and expectations; Here we have the dropsy disposition, we have and still we ask, yea, we can sit down and fancy golden Mountains; Oh what complete conditions and happiness may men in their thoughts make to themselves, and their thoughts are wide, but the matter is nothing at all, but here this glory is above our thoughts, above our desires, above our wishes, we cannot desire better then what we have.

2. It's a full substantiall glory; It's called the weight of glory by the Apostle, 2 Cor. 3. It's so full that the heart of man cannot speak or conceive about it; As humane glory is compared to all the empty things that are vapors and bubbles, and a meer breath, a shadow without any substance: So this glory in heaven is a massie weighty glory, it hath all fulnesse in it, There is fulnesse of holinesse, We are made pure and without the least spot, There is fulnesse of peace and joy, The Sea is not fuller of waters then their hearts and souls of eternal comforts; There is fulnesse of all thy desires and expectations; Here we have the dropsie disposition, we have and still we ask, yea, we can sit down and fancy golden Mountains; Oh what compleat conditions and happinesse may men in their thoughts make to themselves, and their thoughts are wide, but the matter is nothing at all, but here this glory is above our thoughts, above our desires, above our wishes, we cannot desire better then what we have.

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON XXVII. The Eternal Deity of Christ proved; And whence it comes to pass that there are any so vile as to deny it; Showed also what sins do much provoke God to give them up to such Blasphemy.

SERMON XXVII. The Eternall Deity of Christ proved; And whence it comes to passe that there are any so vile as to deny it; Shewed also what sinnes doe much provoke God to give them up to such Blasphemy.

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SERMON XXVII. The Eternal Deity of Christ proved; And whence it comes to pass that there are any so vile as to deny it; Showed also what sins do much provoke God to give them up to such Blasphemy.

SERMON XXVII. The Eternall Deity of Christ proved; And whence it comes to passe that there are any so vile as to deny it; Shewed also what sinnes doe much provoke God to give them up to such Blasphemy.