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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2. God made this world so richly furnished for mans use; And therefore man is to be enlarged in the consideration of this matter; Think with thy self how comes there to be such a glorious Sun to wait on thee every day; How comes the earth every Spring to be so richly clothed for thy advantage; Is not all this of Gods appointing? He made a Summer and winter, he hath given the appointed works of the harvest, so that the world is nothing but Gods storehouse, and great Granary that he hath given to man; This is so great a matter that the Psalmist cried out, Lord, what is man that thou art so mindful of him? Psa. 144.3. Thus Paul speaking of God the Creator of the world, Act. 17. amplifieth it in this, That he giveth us richly to enjoy all things.

2. God made this world so richly furnished for mans use; And therefore man is to be enlarged in the consideration of this matter; Think with thy self how comes there to be such a glorious Sun to wait on thee every day; How comes the earth every Spring to be so richly cloathed for thy advantage; Is not all this of Gods appointing? He made a Summer and winter, he hath given the appointed works of the harvest, so that the world is nothing but Gods storehouse, and great Granary that he hath given to man; This is so great a matter that the Psalmist cried out, Lord, what is man that thou art so mindeful of him? Psa. 144.3. Thus Paul speaking of God the Creator of the world, Act. 17. amplifieth it in this, That he giveth us richly to enjoy all things.

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3. God made this world not for a d•elling place for thee, Thou art not to abide here for ever; He made the world as the Wilderness to the Israelites, They were to be Pilgrims in it, and to seek after Canaan: As Adam by his fault continued not in Paradise, so neither by reason of death was he long in the world; Therefore the Apostle saith, We have here no abiding City,

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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.

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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.