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 28: Proveth, That the world was not from Eternity, but had its beginning in time; And reduc…

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Use 5 5. Is God the Author of the world? Then let us make that use of this world for which God created it; As he had his holy and wise ends, so do thou aim at them:

Ʋse 5 5. Is God the Authour of the world? Then let us make that use of this world for which God created it; As he had his holy and wise ends, so do thou aim at them:

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Now Gods ends in creating the world were such as these,

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1. To demonstrate his own glory, Thus Psa. 19. The heavens show forth the glory of God, They discover his wisdom, his power, his goodness, and so there is not any one creature, though never so little but we are to admire the Creator in it; As a Chamber hung round about with Looking-glasses, represents the face upon every turn, Thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; Though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

1. To demonstrate his own glory, Thus Psa. 19. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, They discover his wisedom, his power, his goodnesse, and so there is not any one creature, though never so little but we are to admire the Creator in it; As a Chamber hung round about with Looking-glasses, represents the face upon every turn, Thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; Though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

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

SERMON XXIX. Of Divine Knowledge, its Excellency and Rarity; Showing, That God is truly and properly known only by the Godly; And wherein their Knowledge of God differs from the Knowledge that others have of him.

SERMON XXIX. Of Divine Knowledge, its Excellency and Rarity; Shewing, That God is truely and properly known onely by the Godly; And wherein their Knowledge of God differs from the Knowledge that others have of him.

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SERMON XXIX. Of Divine Knowledge, its Excellency and Rarity; Showing, That God is truly and properly known only by the Godly; And wherein their Knowledge of God differs from the Knowledge that others have of him.

SERMON XXIX. Of Divine Knowledge, its Excellency and Rarity; Shewing, That God is truely and properly known onely by the Godly; And wherein their Knowledge of God differs from the Knowledge that others have of him.