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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.
SERMON XXXVII. Showeth, That Gods People are ready and willing in Obedience, Whence it is that they are so; Tending to rouse men up from dullness and Formality in Gods service.
SERMON XXXVII. Sheweth, That Gods People are ready and willing in Obedience, Whence it is that they are so; Tending to rouse men up from dulnesse and Formality in Gods service.
JOH. 17.8. For I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them.
There remaineth two things more considerable in the description of the Disciples Obedience.
THere remaineth two things more considerable in the description of the Disciples Obedience.
The next thing to be considered is their readiness and willingness implied in the word [Greek or Hebrew], They did not cavil or dispute, They did not draw back or maliciously oppose, but they were like melted wax ready to receive any impression, like white paper whereon Gods Will and Law might be immediately written, and indeed if you observe the Disciples all along from their first call to this present time there appeared much readiness in them; Christ did no sooner speak the word commanding them to follow him, but immediately they leave all and obey, though it was so much to their outward disadvantage, though it was to fall in the Whales mouth, yet they readily resign themselves, and although sometimes they showed dullness to believe, and unwillingness in his service, yet our Saviour excuseth it saying, The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, and certainly had there not been a ready free spirit in the Disciples to take Christ above all, and to cleave to him only, they could never have devoured these troubles with so much patience as they did.