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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Many come to maintain such horrid and blasphemous things by the just judgement of God upon them for their sins they are guilty of; For as Rom. 1. we see God as a just Judge delivering up men partly to vile affections, to Idolatry, to change the Image of God into the likeness of an Ox; How should men become thus brutish to worship that as a God which they themselves made; That they should have no more understanding; The Lord gave them up, and as it was with the Jews, though our Saviour did all those wonderful miracles amongst them, yet they did not see with their eyes, or understand with their hearts; Why? The Lord had put this Veil upon their eyes, and thus the Apostle plainly saith, 2 Thes 2.11. God shall send them strong delusions to believe a lie, a woeful curse, when God sends this abroad, when men shall be so strongly deluded, that that which is a very notorious lye and falsehood,1 yet they shall believe it, so that you are to walk with all fear and trembling lest God deliver you up to such strong delusions, and these sins do much provoke God.
2. Many come to maintain such horrid and blasphemous things by the just judgement of God upon them for their sins they are guilty of; For as Rom. 1. we see God as a just Judge delivering up men partly to vile affections, to Idolatry, to change the Image of God into the likenesse of an Oxe; How should men become thus bruitish to worship that as a God which they themselves made; That they should have no more understanding; The Lord gave them up, and as it was with the Jews, though our Saviour did all those wonderfull miracles amongst them, yet they did not see with their eyes, or understand with their hearts; Why? The Lord had put this Veil upon their eyes, and thus the Apostle plainly saith, 2 Thes 2.11. God shall send them strong delusions to beleeve a lie, a wofull curse, when God sends this abroad, when men shall be so strongly deluded, that that which is a very notorious lye and falshood,1 yet they shall beleeve it, so that you are to walk with all fear and trembling lest God deliver you up to such strong delusions, and these sins do much provoke God.