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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 6
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Therefore he is called the Messiah, the Christ; and the chief scope of the Evangelists, is to prove, that Jesus of Nazareth, then born, was the Christ, the Messiah. For as Antichrist must be discovered by having all the peculiar characters, that the Scripture attributes to him: So must Jesus be proved to be the true Christ by having all the Prophecies and promises fulfilled in him. This title Christ doth briefly imply:
Therefore he is called the Messias, the Christ; and the chief scope of the Evangelists, is to prove, that Jesus of Nazareth, then born, was the Christ, the Messias. For as Antichrist must be discovered by having all the peculiar characters, that the Scripture attributes to him: So must Jesus be proved to be the true Christ by having all the Prophecies and promises fulfilled in him. This title Christ doth briefly imply:
First, His solemn inauguration and consecration to that Office of a Saviour.
First, His solemne inauguration and consecration to that Office of a Saviour.
Secondly, The full qualifying of him for that work, both in fitness of Person, and fullness of graces. Therefore (as you heard) God is said to anoint him. And certainly if Moses were enabled to bring Israel out of Egypt, and Joshua into Canaan, notwithstanding all the oppositions in the way, fear not but Christ the anointed will bring all his children to Heaven, notwithstanding all contrary power.
Secondly, The full qualifying of him for that worke, both in fitness of Person, and fullnesse of graces. Therefore (as you heard) God is said to anoint him. And certainly if Moses were inabled to bring Israel out of Aegypt, and Joshua into Canaan, notwithstanding all the oppositions in the way, fear not but Christ the anointed will bring all his children to Heaven, notwithstanding all contrary power.