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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.
1Sixthly, They must needs be a willing obedient people because of that eternal glorious reward which is promised to every holy duty; What will put Wings to the soul if not this? To think that God will assuredly put upon thee Robes of Immortality and glory, for a duty though never so little, for a cup of cold water, who may not admire the vast disproportion that is between our work and Gods reward; If the Apostle spake of the most extreme sufferings that could be in this life, they were not worthy to be compared to that eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. 4, 17. How much more is it true of those good works we do, which are but little in quantity, and defiled in quality; Well therefore may they rejoice and work righteousness, Well may the godly labour even in the heat of the day, with much gladness of heart, for the recompense of thy reward doth exceed all proportion; If the Kingdoms of the world should be given to a man for lifting up a straw, it would not be so great a matter as when God and Heaven became thy reward for every holy duty: No wonder if they are best when they are thus doing; for how can they be better; There is no such profitable and comfortable work as to be doing that of the Lords.
1Sixthly, They must needs be a willing obedient people because of that eternall glorious reward which is promised to every holy duty; What will put Wings to the soul if not this? To think that God will assuredly put upon thee Robes of Immortality and glory, for a duty though never so little, for a cup of cold water, who may not admire the vast disproportion that is between our work and Gods reward; If the Apostle spake of the most extreme sufferings that could be in this life, they were not worthy to be compared to that eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. 4, 17. How much more is it true of those good works we do, which are but little in quantity, and defiled in quality; Well therefore may they rejoyce and work righteousnesse, Well may the godly labour even in the heat of the day, with much gladnesse of heart, for the recompence of thy reward doth exceed all proportion; If the Kingdomes of the world should be given to a man for lifting up a straw, it would not be so great a matter as when God and Heaven became thy reward for every holy duty: No wonder if they are best when they are thus doing; for how can they be better; There is no such profitable and comfortable wotk as to be doing that of the Lords.