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Public affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…
Public affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgess, pastor of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.
London: printed by J.Y. for Thomas Underhill, 1646London: printed by J.Y. for Thomas Vnderhill, 1646
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9. To execute justice upon offenders and enemies. He that loveth the sheep, will kill the wolves, 1 King. 2.35. Yea, to abound in all kind of justice, distributive, and commutative. This is more glorious then the morning-star; which makes the Scripture call so diligently upon all in place to execute it: This makes the oppressed and injured to love you. What was the cause that the Egyptians made the bird Ibis their God, but because, by her horned bill, she killed those venomous creatures that had annoyed them? The Eagle, though an excellent creature, yet was counted unclean, because of his rapine and violence upon others. How lovely is that carriage of Jobs, described in several verses, Job 29. from ver. 7. to the 17th?
9. To execute justice upon offenders and enemies. Hee that loveth the sheep, will kill the wolves, 1 King. 2.35. Yea, to abound in all kind of justice, distributive, and commutative. This is more glorious then the morning-starre; which makes the Scripture call so diligently upon all in place to execute it: This makes the oppressed and injured to love you. What was the cause that the Egyptians made the bird Ibis their God, but because, by her horned bill, shee killed those venemous creatures that had annoyed them? The Eagle, though an excellent creature, yet was counted unclean, because of his rapine and violence upon others. How lovely is that carriage of Jobs, described in severall verses, Job 29. from ver. 7. to the 17th?
10. To venture against all fears and dangers. Thus the father and mother do for their little ones, choosing it should rather fall upon themselves, then the fruit of their loins: Thus we see Nehemiah and Zerubbabel not daunted at any oppositions; their zeal for the public made them, like Job's Leviathan, laugh at the spear. To go against friends, relations, enemies, for to save the public, argueth a fatherly courageous heart; Praesis ut prosis.