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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 45: The Application of the former Subject; Setting forth the Necessity of Faith and Repenta…
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5. They that shall have advantage by Christs Death they are infinitely affected with that love of God and Christ therein; As you see in Paul, That love of Christ giving himself for us sinners and enemies, to be reconciled thereby to God; Oh how mightily did it constrain Paul 2 Cor. 5.14. The love of Christ constraineth us, holds us in an ecstasy, working on us, as the Spirit did on the Prophets in their illuminations and prophesies; And why so? Because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; To consider from what a dying damning estate Christs Death doth free us, must needs be like fire burning and inflaming a man all over; If we had not been desperately dead, dead every way, dead in sin, dead in guilt, dead in respect of all earthly hope, Christ would not have died for us; Oh then the unspeakable affections and enlargements which the Death of Christ works in those that have a propriety therein.
5. They that shall have advantage by Christs Death they are infinitely affected with that love of God and Christ therein; As you see in Paul, That love of Christ giving himself for us sinners and enemies, to be reconciled thereby to God; Oh how mightily did it constrain Paul 2 Cor. 5.14. The love of Christ constraineth us, holds us in an extasie, working on us, as the Spirit did on the Prophets in their illuminations and prophesies; And why so? Because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; To consider from what a dying damning estate Christs Death doth free us, must needs be like fire burning and inflaming a man all over; If we had not been desperately dead, dead every way, dead in sin, dead in guilt, dead in respect of all earthly hope, Christ would not have died for us; Oh then the unspeakable affections and enlargements which the Death of Christ works in those that have a propriety therein.
6. They that have a propriety in Christs Death will resign all they have up unto Christ, and now live no longer to themselves or to worldly motives, but unto Christ;