CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: 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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We may instance in some particulars.

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1. Daily pardon for our daily sins and Infirmities; For though all our former sins were wholly remitted, yet if we have not a constant remission, every hour and moment our condition would be damnable; Therefore when we sin he stands up as an Advocate: We see then what it is that may support our hearts against all quotidian failings, The vain thoughts, the proud and unbelieving Imaginations, The dullness and formality of our duties, all these are done away by Christs prayer; We could not have any rest or peace in our consciences all the day long, if we had not an Antidote against the daily poison we suck down; Alas it's not thy Repentance, thy godly strict life thou mayest build on, for the least vain thought deserveth hell, and would mar all thy graces, But it's the Intercession of a Mediator without us.

1. Daily pardon for our daily sinnes and Infirmities; For though all our former sinnes were wholly remitted, yet if we have not a constant remission, every hour and moment our condition would be damnable; Therefore when we sinne he stands up as an Advocate: We see then what it is that may support our hearts against all quotidian failings, The vain thoughts, the proud and unbeleeving Imaginations, The dulnesse and formality of our duties, all these are done away by Christs praier; We could not have any rest or peace in our consciences all the day long, if we had not an Antidote against the daily poison we suck down; Alas it's not thy Repentance, thy godly strict life thou maist build on, for the least vain thought deserveth hell, and would marre all thy graces, But it's the Intercession of a Mediatour without us.

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2. As pardon of sin so power against sin under the urgent and important temptations thereunto; Oh this is of admirable concernment, That when thou art even eating poison, when thou art within the hot flames of sin, yet to be preserved; This is so great a matter that we are taught constantly to pray that we may not be led into temptation; What sad bruises and wounds have the godly got to themselves in a temptation; Thou little knowest what thou mayest be

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SERMON XLIII. Of the Extent of Christs Mediatory Prayer, and of his Death; That he Prayed and Died not for all and every one of mankind, but only for the Elect; And that the Scripture-Expressions of Christs Dying for all are to be understood Indefinitely and not Universally.

SERMON XLIII. Of the Extent of Christs Mediatory Praier, and of his Death; That he Praied and Died not for all and every one of mankinde, but onely for the Elect; And that the Scripture-Expressions of Christs Dying for all are to be understood Indefinitely and not Ʋniversally.

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SERMON XLIII. Of the Extent of Christs Mediatory Prayer, and of his Death; That he Prayed and Died not for all and every one of mankind, but only for the Elect; And that the Scripture-Expressions of Christs Dying for all are to be understood Indefinitely and not Universally.

SERMON XLIII. Of the Extent of Christs Mediatory Praier, and of his Death; That he Praied and Died not for all and every one of mankinde, but onely for the Elect; And that the Scripture-Expressions of Christs Dying for all are to be understood Indefinitely and not Ʋniversally.