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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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15. Those that suffer and endure all persecutions willingly for his Name and Truth; They do in an high degree glorify Christ; In a special manner did Christ take notice of his Disciples, because they had accompanied him in his Temptations, and the Apostle Peter doth at large show how God is glorified when men suffer not for ill doing, but as Christians; That as they glorify Christ, so Christ makes a spirit of glory to rest upon them, 1 Pet. 4.14. Those marks Paul did bear on his body, They were so many Trophies; Even as Soldiers count wounds a mark of honour, they have received in fight for their commander; When the ⟨p. 269⟩Disciples went away rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer any thing for Christs sake; This did greatly redound to Christs glory; Oh then let not the people of God be afraid or shrink at reproaches, dishonours, and troubles for Christs sake, for wherein can they glorify him more? Or can the world say upon better grounds, Behold how they loved Christ and his Truth, better then their estates or their lives; Those millions of Martyrs that have died for Christs sake, brought an astonishing even to the very heathens; No Emperor or Monarch, No Master or Teacher ever had such a multitude of Disciples readily sacrificing their lives, so that we mistake if we think the glory of Christ hath been in such an outward pomp as earthly Kings have been; No, by sufferings, by revilings, by the most cruel deaths that malicious men could invent, they made the Name of Christ glorious through the whole world; Even as Christ called his own death a glorifying both of himself and his Father, so did the miseries and calamities of his Children redound greatly to his honour, for greater love and esteem they could not show then by laying down their lives for him.
15. Those that suffer and endure all persecutions willingly for his Name and Truth; They do in an high degree glorifie Christ; In a special manner did Christ take notice of his Disciples, because they had accompanied him in his Temptations, and the Apostle Peter doth at large shew how God is glorified when men suffer not for ill doing, but as Christians; That as they glorifie Christ, so Christ makes a spirit of glory to rest upon them,