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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.
In the second place the Apostles may be considered strictly and particularly, as men in office, as those who were appointed to preach the Gospel, and so our Saviour prayeth for their Unity in this Consideration.
In the second place the Apostles may be considered strictly and particularly, as men in office, as those who were appointed to preach the Gospel, and so our Saviour praieth for their Ʋnity in this Consideration.
It is of infinite consequence that the Ministers of the Gospel should agree among themselves, for when they are divided the people must be divided; If the Pilates in a Ship disagree the Ship must necessarily sink; So that our Saviour knowing the devices of Satan to set Apostle against Apostle, Pastor against Pastor, he therefore prayeth for their Unity in this Ministerial Office and employment, and the expression is observable, he saith not, that they may be united, but be one, and that according to the highest example of all unity, the Father and the Son: Luther thinketh the Substantive answering [Greek or Hebrew] is [Greek or Hebrew] one mystical body, but we rather take it of their Office and Ministerial Employment, as 1 Cor 3.8. The Apostle arguing against Church-divisions, by setting up several Officers one against another, saith, He that planteth, and he that watereth are one,1 They all have the same end, and all have one general employment, viz. the conversion of men to God.
It is of infinite consequence that the Ministers of the Gospel should agree among themselves, for when they are divided the people must be divided; If the Pilates in a Ship disagree the Ship must necessarily sink; So that our Saviour knowing the devices of Satan to set Apostle against Apostle, Pastor against Pastor, he therefore praieth for their Unity in this Ministerial Office and emploiment, and the expression is observable, he saith not, that they may be united, but be one, and that according to the highest example of all unity, the Father and the Sonne: Luther thinketh the Substantive answering 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is one mystical body, but we rather take it of their Office and Ministerial Employment, as 1 Cor 3.8. The Apostle arguing against Church-divisions, by setting up several Officers one against another, saith, He that planteth, and he that watereth are one,