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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.
Use 2. of Direction,1 To humble the people of God that though there be so eminent and pregnant Reasons for their willing obedience, yet they should be so dead, so heartless, so full of excuses as they are, Oh is not this the sin of every godly man? May he not cry out of his slothfulness and barrenness? Are the things of God and Heaven as operative and lively upon thee as the things of the earth? Oh how hard is thy heart many times like the Mountains of Gilboa whereon no dew falls; Oh how often do they keep the door shut even when Christ knocketh; so that if you ask wherein may the people of God fear their ruin most? It may be said, In their unwillingness, in their deadness and coldness; Oh how many times are we not so much as capable of that excuse our Saviour gave the Disciples, The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, for how often is thy flesh weak and thy Spirit unwilling also; For these things Gods children have cause to have poverty and shame of spirit within them.
Ʋse 2. of Direction,1 To humble the people of God that though there be so eminent and pregnant Reasons for their willing obedience, yet they should be so dead, so heartlesse, so full of excuses as they are, Oh is not this the sinne of every godly man? May he not cry out of his slothfulnesse and barrennesse? Are the things of God and Heaven as operative and lively upon thee as the things of the earth? Oh how hard is thy heart many times like the Mountains of Gilboa whereon no dew fals; Oh how often do they keep the door shut even when Christ knocketh; so that if you ask wherein may the people of God fear their ruine most? It may be said, In their unwillingnesse, in their deadnesse and coldnesse; Oh how many times are we not so much as capable of that excuse our Saviour gave the Disciples, The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, for how often is thy flesh weak and thy Spirit unwilling also; For these things Gods children have cause to have poverty and shame of spirit within them.
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