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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
R. 2 2. No wicked man though never so great a Scholar knoweth God if he do not fear him, if he stands not in an holy awe and reverence of him, who would not fear thee, Isa. 10. O thou King of Nations, for to thee it appertaineth, and sanctify the Lord God, let him be your dread: Our Saviour likewise, Fear not them that can kill the body, Mat. 10.28. but I tell you whom you shall fear, &c. You see then that if we did rightly know God, how pure and just he is, how full of wrath and vengeance against impenitent sinners, we would cry out with Joseph upon every temptation, How can I do this and sin against God? I cannot, I dare not; Thus Paul, Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men, 2 Cor. 5.11. Did men know the greatness and the terror of God, the power and Majesty he is clothed with, That no sinner though never so great can stand before him any more then the stubble before the fire, That he can immediately raise hellish torments in thy conscience, That he can bid thee go out of this Church, a trembling Cain, a despairing Judas, Did (I say) People know this God to be so great, how could they riot it in all excess as they do? as our Saviour told the Woman, Joh. 4. If thou hadst known who it is that asked water of thee, thou wouldst have given him, Had you or did you know that the God whom you offend all the day long, is so great and terrible in Majesty, it would have been a stop to all thy bold impieties, but men know not God.
R. 2 2. No wicked man though never so great a Scholar knoweth God if he doe not fear him, if he stands not in an holy awe and reverence of him, who would not fear thee, Isa. 10. O thou King of Nations, for to thee it appertaineth, and sanctifie the Lord God, let him be your dread: Our Saviour likewise, Fear not them that can kill the body, Mat. 10.28. but I tell you whom you shall fear, &c. You see then that if we did rightly know God, how pure and just he is, how full of wrath and vengeance against impenitent sinners, we would cry out with Joseph upon every temptation, How can I do this and sinne against God? I cannot, I dare not; Thus Paul, Knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men,