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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 42: The Excellency and Efficacy of Christs Mediatory Prayer; Set forth in many Aggravations…
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1. Those who for the present are in a state of sin and opposition to Christ, and are called Sheep only in respect of Gods purpose and Election, Joh. 10.16. Other Sheep I have that are not of this Fold, Them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice; These are under Christ Mediatory Prayer, for it is by virtue of his Mediation that they are brought home unto him, but then there are others who are actually put into a possession of Christ, having new Natures,1 and so enjoying a Title and Right to him; These are much more under the Mediatory power of Christs Prayer, And therefore of such I shall treat.
1. Those who for the present are in a state of sinne and opposition to Christ, and are called Sheep only in respect of Gods purpose and Election, Joh. 10.16. Other Sheep I have that are not of this Fold, Them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice; These are under Christt Mediatory Praier, for it is by vertue of his Mediation that they are brought home unto him, but then there are others who are actually put into a possession of Christ, having new Natures,1 and so enjoying a Title and Right to him; These are much more under the Mediatory power of Christs Praier, And therefore of such I shall treat.
- 1The Children of God are of two sorts.
Again Consider, That though Christ prayed on Earth as a Mediator, yet still he doth in Heaven make Intercession for his: He ceaseth not praying though the manner be different; His prayer while in his humiliation is accompanied with strong cries and tears, with much humility and debasement, but his prayer in his Exaltation is only a representing of those to God whom he died far, as also their condition and necessity, willing that what he had purchased for them should be actually applied to them; Hence in the Text it is [Greek or Hebrew]; A Learned man observeth that that word is only applied to the Prayers of Christ in his humiliation, and [Greek or Hebrew] to his Intercession, which he makes in heaven, so that though Christ be now in heaven, yet we may not think he hath laid aside those compassionate bowels he had toward us,