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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1To open this, Consider,
- 1How Christ who is God can be glorified.
First, That to glorify is taken two ways in the Scripture.
First, That to glorifie is taken two waies in the Scripture.
1, By any testimony of words, or otherwise to acknowledge the greatness and honour of another, and in this sense only are we said to glorify God, for we cannot indeed add any thing to his glory, he is essentially glorious, though there bad never been any creature to acknowledge it, only we manifest and celebrate that glory which God had before, Thus gloria is said to be clara notitia.
1, By any testimony of words, or otherwise to acknowledge the greatness and honour of another, and in this sence only are we said to glorifie God, for we cannot indeed adde any thing to his glory, he is essentially glorious, though there bad never been any creature to acknowledge it, only we manifest and celebrate that glory which God had before, Thus gloria is said to be clara notitia.