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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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Sermon 32: Of the peculiar Propriety Gods People have in him and he in them.
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.
1. It should cause holy boldness and earnest fervency in prayer; Thou art not praying to God that is an adversary, a stranger, or unknown to thee; It may be he will hear, it may be not; Oh such diffidence is very sinful, it's very pleasing to God to pray to him in this propriety, because hereby thy hope to speed will be greater, Thy thankfulness will be more, Thy delight and joy in him will increase and flourish, and tormenting fears will be overcome.
1. It should cause holy boldnesse and earnest fervency in praier; Thou art not praying to God that is an adversary, a stranger, or unknown to thee; It may be he will hear, it may be not; Oh such diffidence is very sinful, it's very pleasing to God to pray to him in this propriety, because hereby thy hope to speed will be greater, Thy thankfulnesse will be more, Thy delight and joy in him will encrease and flourish, and tormenting fears will be overcome.
2. It will uphold against all temptations within, in desertions, in blackness of soul, yet if thou trustest on God as thy God, though thou dost not feel him to be so, this is good; O Lord, thou dost but seem to withdraw thy self; O Christ, thou art my brother Joseph though thou speakest thus roughly.
3. In opposition from the world; O Lord, though all the world hate me, yet I rejoice because I am thine; And why do the devils and wicked men hate me? Is it not because I am thine▪ If I were one of theirs they would love me; Lord, am I not thy treasure, thy Jewell, and if the devil or the world destroy me, is it not thy loss as well as mine?
3. In opposition from the world; O Lord, though all the world hate me, yet I rejoyce because I am thine; And why do the devils and wicked men hate me? Is it not because I am thine If I were one of theirs they would love me; Lord, am I not thy treasure, thy Jewell, and if the devil or the world destroy me, is it not thy losse as well as mine?