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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.
Lastly, This purifieth the heart, and makes us an holy, heavenly people; 1If we be risen with Christ, we set our affections on things above, Col. 3.1, 2. and he that hath this hope purifieth himself as God is pure, 1 Joh. 3.3. Act. 15 9. As the Sun brings heat and light where it is, so where faith is it makes the heat active and operative, as Heb. 11. This is the beholding of God as in a glass, whereby we are transformed into his Image from grace to grace; Believing gets spiritual ⟨p. 196⟩strength, even as eating and drinking doth bodily; Therefore while thou abatest in thy faith thou dost not only lose thy comfort but thy spiritual strength If thou cease to believe not only doubts and fears but even lusts and sins will prevail over thee; Thus you see what it is to believe in Christ thus manifested.
Lastly, This purifieth the heart, and makes us an holy, heavenly people; 1If we be risen with Christ, we set our affections on things above, Col. 3.1, 2. and he that hath this hope purifieth himself as God is pure, 1 Joh. 3.3. Act. 15 9. As the Sun brings heat and light where it is, so where faith is it makes the heat active and operative, as Heb. 11. This is the beholding of God as in a glasse, whereby we are transformed into his Image from grace to grace; Beleeving gets spirituall ⟨p. 196⟩