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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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The Person is Christ; Having before asserted a community in essence and all things with the Father, he now assumeth also a propriety in the glory his Father is to have; Chief and ultimate glory belongs only to God: Let not him that glorieth, 1 Cor. 1. glory in his riches, in his honours, but that he knoweth God; The glory of God is the utmost end of man, and we may no more attribute it to a creature then divine worship; So that the Deity of Christ is here also implied.
2. The other is the action to glorify; The word is in the preterperfect tense (as Austin thinks) for the future, according to the custom of the Hebrews, for the Apostles had glorified Christ but little, comparatively to what they would do after Christs ascension, when such heavenly gifts were bestowed upon them, but we may keep the proper signification, for the Apostles in that they left all, believing in him as the promised Messiah, as also preaching and working Miracles in his Name did in a great measure glorify Christ; Now when Christ is said to be glorified by his Disciples, that is to be understood declaratively only, not really for Christ being God, no real glory could be added to him, only there might be an outward acknowledgement and manifestation of it.
2. The other is the action to glorifie; The word is in the preterperfect tense (as Austin thinks) for the future, according to the custome of the Hebrews, for the Apostles had glorified Christ but little, comparatively to what they would do after Christs ascension, when such heavenly gifts were bestowed upon them, but we may keep the proper signification, for the Apostles in that they left all, beleeving in him as the promised Messias, as also preaching and working Miracles in his Name did in a great measure glorifie Christ; Now when Christ is said to be glorified by his Disciples, that is to be understood declaratively only, not really for Christ being God, no reall glory could be added to him, only there might be an outward acknowledgement and manifestation of it.