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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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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.
4. They keep the Word of God who make it a rule for their lives, that order their conversation accordingly, for to hide it in the heart,1 unless it be with David, that you may not transgress in your lives, is not yet to attain to the due end; If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them; Many have Scripture in their hearts and memory but not in their lives; David made this use of it, when he said, It was a Lamp and light to his feet, and then he exhorts the young man so to attend it, Psa. 119 9. and thereby to cleanse his ways: The Apostle James calls it a glass, Jam. 1.23. and then you make use of it aright▪ when you thereby wash out all those spots that are in thy life, and curest all thy wrinkles and deformities, look then to this, Doth the Word of God in thy mind and heart break out into thy life? Doth it take away the Leprosy there? certainly there is no other effectual means but this; It's the Word if any thing will forewarn thee of sin, neither mercies or afflictions, nor thy own resolves and purposes, but the Word of God set home on the heart that can make an holy change and alteration.
4. They keep the Word of God who make it a rule for their lives, that order their conversation accordingly, for to hide it in the heart,1 unlesse it be with David, that you may not transgresse in your lives, is not yet to attain to the due end; If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them; Many have Scripture in their hearts and memory but not in their lives; David made this use of it, when he said, It was a Lamp and light to his feet, and then he exhorts the young man so to attend it, Psa. 119 9. and thereby to clense his waies: The Apostle James cals it a glasse, Jam. 1.23. and then you make use of it aright▪ when you thereby wash out all those spots that are in thy life, and curest all thy wrinkles and deformities, look then to this, Doth the Word of God in thy minde and heart break out into thy life? Doth it take away the Leprosie there? certainly there is no other effectuall means but this; It's the Word if any thing will forewarn thee of sin, neither mercies or afflictions, nor thy own resolves and purposes, but the Word of God set home on the heart that can make an holy change and alteration.