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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.
3. There is the word of th• eatning, and although in one sense we are not to keep that, yet in another respect we are with trembling and fear to observe it;1 Thus whatsoever God doth forbid, threatening it either with temporal or eternal judgements the godly have an holy awe of; They dare not displease God, How can I do this and sin against God? saith Joseph; Thus Josiah when the Law was read his heart did melt and tremble, and therefore how graciously did God take notice of that tender disposition in him; It's a vain and erroneous conceit to think the threatenings do not belong to the godly, or that they must not with fear make use of them; For if so, why doth the Scripture propound threatenings even to the godly, and that very often, and who is there so godly that hath not the remainder of corruption in him, who needeth not fear, as a bridle to curb sin in him, especially when we see Adam though in the state of Integrity, was yet threatened by God, if he did eat of the forbidden fruit? so that even then a threatening had its proper use to Adam though altogether holy.
3. There is the word of th• eatning, and although in one sence we are not to keep that, yet in another respect we are with trembling and fear to observe it;1 Thus whatsoever God doth forbid, threatning it either with temporal or eternal judgements the godly have an holy awe of; They dare not displease God, How can I do this and sin against God? saith Joseph; Thus Josiah when the Law was read his heart did melt and tremble, and therefore how graciously did God take notice of that tender disposition in him; It's a vain and erroneous conceit to think the threatnings do not belong to the godly, or that they must not with fear make use of them; For if so, why doth the Scripture propound threatnings even to the godly, and that very often, and who is there so godly that hath not the remainder of corruption in him, who needeth not fear, as a bridle to curb sin in him, especially when we see Adam though in the state of Integrity, was yet threatned by God, if he did eat of the forbidden fruit? so that even then a threatning had its proper use to Adam though altogether holy.
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