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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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For the first, Let us consider how many ways the people of God do glorify Christ, and then why it's their duty:
For the first, Let us consider how many waies the people of God do glorifie Christ, and then why it's their duty:
For the first, Christ is glorified in these particulars,
First, When by Faith they do receive and own him to be the promised Messiah; This our Saviour you heard did again and again commend them for,1 they did believe him to be the Messiah sent of the Father, and so in other places they acknowledged this, so that the very acknowledging of him to be the Christ so often spoken of by the Prophets, and looking for no other, was in an high manner giving glory to him, as on the contrary; Those Pharisees and unbelieving Jews who rejected him, saying, he was an Impostor and a deceiver; These did in an high manner dishonour him, making him a liar, and therefore charging him for communion with the devil, as if by him he did all his miracles; It is therefore a glorifying of Christ when he is acknowledged and believed to be the promised Messiah, and that to him only belongs the characters of such an one.
First, When by Faith they do receive and own him to be the promised Messias; This our Saviour you heard did again and again commend them for,1 they did beleeve him to be the Messias sent of the Father, and so in other places they acknowledged this, so that the very acknowledging of him to be the Christ so often spoken of by the Prophets, and looking for no other, was in an high manner giving glory to him, as on the contrary; Those Pharisees and unbeleeving Jews who rejected him, saying, he was an Impostor and a deceiver; These did in an high manner dishonour him, making him a lyar, and therefore charging him for communion with the devil, as if by him he did all his miracles; It is therefore a glorifying of Christ when he is acknowledged and beleeved to be the promised Messias, and that to him only belongs the characters of such an one.