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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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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, Heb. 4.15. when he was on the earth.
Again Consider, That though Christ praied on Earth as a Mediatour, yet still he doth in Heaven make Intercession for his: He ceaseth not praying though the manner be different; His praier while in his humiliation is accompanied with strong crys and tears, with much humility and debasement, but his praier 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; A Learned man observeth that that word is only applied to the Praiers of Christ in his humiliation, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 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, Heb. 4.15. when he was on the earth.
Thirdly, Take notice that as there was a Typical High-Priest in the Old Testament, who offered Sacrifices and prayed for the people, carrying on his Breast the Names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, that thereby they might be in a continual memory as it were before God, So under the New Testament