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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3.¹ This must needs be a great support because of the emptiness and insufficiency in all these things here below, to fill and satiate the heart. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the heart with wishing in this world; but in the world to come, there the faculties of the soul and all the parts of the body are fully replenished, There is no want, no desire, no wish for more then they have; It's no wonder if Solomon who took all ways possible to satisfy his mind and to find out happiness in this life, yet instead of happiness found nothing but briars, and therefore wrote upon all, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity; For it cannot be otherwise, Can an hungry man fill his belly with empty air? Can a cold man warm himself at a painted fire? Could these birds fill themselves that fled to Zeuxes painted grapes, taking them for true ones, no more can any thing in this world satisfy man; No, it's only in the world to come that can fill up every corner of the soul.

3.¹ This must needs be a great support because of the emptinesse and insufficiency in all these things here below, to fill and satiate the heart. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the heart with wishing in this world; but in the world to come, there the faculties of the soul and all the parts of the body are fully replenished, There is no want, no desire, no wish for more then they have; It's no wonder if Solomon who took all waies possible to satisfie his minde and to finde out happinesse in this life, yet instead of happinesse found nothing but briars, and therefore wrote upon all, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity; For it cannot be otherwise, Can an hungry man fill his belly with empty air? Can a cold man warm himself at a painted fire? Could these birds fill themselves that fled to Zeuxes painted grapes, taking them for true ones, no more can any thing in this world satisfie man; No, it's only in the world to come that can fill up every corner of the soul.

13. Because of the insufficiency of all other things to satisfy the heart.3. Because of the insufficiency of all other things to satisfie the heart.

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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.