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Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul'sCommunion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's
Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.
London: printed by Evan Tyler, 1655
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.
1. When the flesh fails, when the outward man is in an afflicted condition, and who can tell the benefit of afflictions? garlic among rose-trees, makes the roses the sweeter, and those roses which are made by art to grow without prickles, lose their sent. Affliction with the enjoyment of God is infinitely better than prosperity without it. But what is thy affliction? is it bodily weakness? thy vile body shall ere long be changed. Art thou poor and despised? riches of glory will make full amends. What need I name particulars? take one Text which is so plain, the meanest may understand it, yet so full, there's none able to explain it, 2 Cor. 4.16, 17, 18, For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1. When the flesh failes, when the outward man is in an afflicted condition, and who can tell the benefit of afflictions? garlick among rose-trees, makes the roses the sweeter, and those roses which are made by art to grow without prickles, lose their sent. Affliction with the enjoyment of God is infinitely better than prosperity without it. But what is thy affliction? is it bodily weakness? thy vile body shall ere long be changed. Art thou poor and despised? riches of glory will make full amends. What need I name particulars? take one Text which is so plain, the meanest may understand it, yet so full, there's none able to explain it, 2 Cor. 4.16, 17, 18, For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.