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 60: The great Pattern of Unity; The Nature and Properties of the Unity that is between God…Sermon 60: The great Paterne of Ʋnity; The Nature and Properties of the Ʋnity that is between God…

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That it's not enough for the Ministers of the Gospel to be one, but they are to endeavour after the most perfect Unity, to be One as the Father and Son are. Oh this consideration should make us blush and ashamed to see the contentions and differences that are! Did the Father and the Son, ever show such discord! We should never take our eyes off this pattern.

That it's not enough for the Ministers of the Gospel to be one, but they are to endeavour after the most perfect Ʋnity, to be One as the Father and Sonne are. Oh this consideration should make us blush and ashamed to see the contentions and differences that are! Did the Father and the Sonne, ever shew such discord! We should never take our eyes off this patern.

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Let us but consider in how many respects we are to aim at such a Unity as is between them.¹

11. The Unity between the Father & Son is a spiritual union.

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First, The Unity between the Father and the Son is a spiritual Unity: Insomuch that some have called the Spirit of God, the holy bond of the Trinity; It's not a carnal, bodily Unity, but spiritual; and thus ought the Ministers of ⟨p. 326⟩the Gospel to be, though they be of the same nature, of the same flesh and blood, yet if they have not the same spirit composing and sanctifying of them, they will be like ropes of sand; This the Apostle urgeth admirably, 1 Cor. 12. 4, &c. and vers. 13. where enumerating the several gifts and operations of Gods Spirit, he still addeth, It's the same Spirit, and by one Spirit, we are all baptized in the same bond. This then ought to be our Unity, the holy Spirit of God is to move, work and guide all our hearts and affections. As it's the same Soul that informeth all the parts of the body, or as some Philosophers said, There was one intellectus agens, that was universal to all men. There may be agreement for civil and political considerations, but this will never hold, till there be a spiritual Unity. As Tully observed, That all friendship founded upon bonum utile, or jucundum, would never endure, unless they added bonum honestum; We may add further, Even that moral honest good, is not ground enough, unless it be bonum spiritual; If then the Spirit of God did work, the same measure of illumination and sanctification in all, there would not be any disagreement; but though all godly men have the same Spirit, yet not the same gifts or graces, or degree of graces, and for want of this cometh contention.

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SERMON LXI. The great changes that even a Godly man is subject unto, in respect of the having and losing those Sensible supports, both outward and inward, which God at some times vouchsafeth to them: Also what those sensible Enjoyments are, and why God doth so change the conditions of his People.