CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 59: That it's a special Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein the…Sermon 59: That it's a speciall Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein the…

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Thus you see what kind of Unity there ought to be among the Ministers of the Gospel.

Thus you see what kinde of Unity there ought to be among the Ministers of the Gospel.

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¹In the next place let us Consider the Grounds why it's such a mercy to have Unity amongst Church-Officers.

1Grounds why it is such a mercy to have Unity among Church-Officers.

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1. Because fortitude and strength is in Unity, Vis unita fortior, A Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand, saith our Saviour; When one piece of the Wall divides from the other it foretells ruin; As that Heathen to his Sons, giving them a Quiver of Arrows, intimating thereby as long as they agreed they were invincible: All the united power of the Church is little enough against their common enemies, and shall they weaken themselves.

1. Because fortitude and strength is in Ʋnity, Vis unita fortior, A Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand, saith our Saviour; When one peice of the Wall divides from the other it foretels ruine; As that Heathen to his Sonnes, giving them a Quiver of Arrows, intimating thereby as long as they agreed they were invincible: All the united power of the Church is little enough against their common enemies, and shall they weaken themselves.

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON LX. The great Pattern of Unity; The Nature and Properties of the Unity that is between God the Father, and the Son, against the Socinians. That the Ministers of God should endeavour after a perfect Unity, even to be One, as the Father and Son are. Also some Rules guiding thereunto.

SERMON LX. The great Paterne of Ʋnity; The Nature and Properties of the Ʋnity that is between God the Father, and the Sonne, against the Socinians. That the Ministers of God should endeavour after a perfect Ʋ nity, even to be One, as the Father and Sonne are. Also some Rules guiding thereunto.

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SERMON LX. The great Pattern of Unity; The Nature and Properties of the Unity that is between God the Father, and the Son, against the Socinians. That the Ministers of God should endeavour after a perfect Unity, even to be One, as the Father and Son are. Also some Rules guiding thereunto.

SERMON LX. The great Paterne of Ʋnity; The Nature and Properties of the Ʋnity that is between God the Father, and the Sonne, against the Socinians. That the Ministers of God should endeavour after a perfect Ʋ nity, even to be One, as the Father and Sonne are. Also some Rules guiding thereunto.