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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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13. To glorify Christ is not thus only to acknowledge him, and to rest on him, for these are only internal acts of the soul, and so a spiritual inward glory known by God only, but it's greatly seen in the outward confession and profession of him, and that to the greatest reproach and danger which can be in the world, Rom. 10. With the heart man believeth, but with the tongue profession is made to Salvation; He that will be saved must in the greatest danger and most scornful reproaches own Christ and his way; Thus our Saviour Luk 12.8. Whosoever shall not confess me before a crooked generation, of him my Father and I will be ashamed; Certainly in this particular the Disciples did highly honour Christ, for we know Christ himself was both by birth and life in a most contemptible manner; There was no comeliness or desirableness in him, and then at last was crucified in a most ignominious manner; Now for the Apostles to look on him as the Messiah, to have such high and endeared thoughts of him, when all the world held Christ wretched and accursed, and would not upon any terms be of his followers, this was greatly to honour him; Therefore our Saviour said, Blessed is he that is not offended at me, Mat. 11.6, It was the greatest wonder in the world not to stumble at Christ; We see the wise men; the great men that lived then, they were all offended at his meanness, Is not this the Carpenters Son? Mar. 4. Oh how hard would it have been for us to have received him as the Messiah, if we had lived in those days, for those that followed Christ they were but a handful comparatively, and they were of the more despicable sort, and they were accounted illiterate and mad simple people that adhered to him.
13. To glorifie Christ is not thus only to acknowledge him, and to rest on him, for these are only internal acts of the soul, and so a spiritual inward glory known by God only, but it's greatly seen in the outward confession and profession of him, and that to the greatest reproach and danger which can be in the world, Rom. 10