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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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Sermon 40: Further setteth forth the Excellency and Necessity of pressing the Doctrine of Faith in…
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Marvell not if I am the third time upon this Subject, for we see our Saviour doth again and again commend this Faith in his Disciples, and certainly this is the Sum of the Gospel, the marrow and quintessence of Christianity; By this we differ from Jews, Pagans, and Turks, yea, by this we are separated from Papists, Socinians, and other Heretics, None of them allowing this imputed Righteousness by a Mediator, which by Faith is to be received.
MArvell not if I am the third time upon this Subject, for we see our Saviour doth again and again commend this Faith in his Disciples, and certainly this is the Summe of the Gospel, the marrow and quintessence of Christianity; By this we differ from Jews, Pagans, and Turks, yea, by this we are separated from Papists, Socinians, and other Hereticks, None of them allowing this imputed Righteousnesse by a Mediatour, which by Faith is to be received.
Therefore I shall proceed in exalting and pressing this Faith in a Mediator, that at last we may come to have a spiritual and sound understanding herein; For here are two great stones to be rolled out of the way.
Therefore I shall proceed in exalting and pressing this Faith in a Mediator, that at last we may come to have a spirituall and sound understanding herein; For here are two great stones to be rolled out of the way.
1. Ignorance or misbelief in this Point; There are very few that have been Orthodox here; There are most in the world that have an erroneous persuasion in this matter, under the guilt of sin they do not fly only to Christ as a Mediator; They say, Lo here is Christ and Lo there is Christ; They have something else they put a confidence in, and therefore what the Lord saith in another case, is also true here, He will reject their confidence,