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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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1. Because this glory with God is an universal medicine to all our diseases; It's a full treasury for all our wants;1 The Pool of Bethesda was only for one kind of mercy, he that being diseased stepped in, was healed of his bodily infirmity, but it did not cure all other grievances, it did not make a poor man rich, nor a grieved man cheerful, or a mortal man immortal, but eternal glory doth all things, Thou art a Lazarus in soul and body, all over full of sores; Thou wantest all soul-mercies, and all body-mercies, here is glory that will do all for thee, This is the Ocean, other are but shelves; This is the Sun, other are ⟨p. 147⟩but Stars; In praying for glory thou prayest for all things together in one, this one word glory hath every thing in it, to say Lord glorify me there is all things comprehended in it.
1. Because this glory with God is an universall medicine to all our diseases; It's a full treasury for all our wants;1 The Pool of Bethesda was only for one kinde of mercy, he that being diseased stept in, was healed of his bodily infirmity, but it did not cure all other grievances, it did not make a poor man rich, nor a grieved man chearful, or a mortal man immortall, but eternal glory doth all things, Thou art a Lazarus in soul and body, all over full of sores; Thou wantest all soul-mercies, and all body-mercies, here is glory that will do all for thee, This is the Ocean, other are but shelves; This is the Sun, other are ⟨p. 147⟩but Stars; In praying for glory thou praiest for all things together in one, this one word glory hath every thing in it, to say Lord glorifie me there is all things comprehended in it.
- 11. It's an universal Medicine.