A30241:1551
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.
1Secondly, The Unity between Father and Son is constant and individed. There can never be a separation between them. The Father and Son were always one, though the manifestation of this is more, under the Gospel-light, then it was under the Law; and thus ought the Ministers of the Gospel to agree constantly, perpetually; for if at any time contention breaketh forth, it proveth like a dead fly in a box of ointment, it makes all the other good they have to be ill spoken of; Let them never be so learned, so godly, so zealous, yet discord will scandalize all; and this constancy of Unity is to be preserved against all outward or inward causes of difference; outward is the persecution and opposition of enemies to the Church of God; inward is from our own corruptions and distempers. Against both these we are to watch, that so our peace be not weakened.
1Secondly, The Ʋnity between Father and Son is constant and individed. There can never be a separation between them. The Father and Sonne were alwayes one, though the manifestation of this is more, under the Gospel-light, then it was under the Law; and thus ought the Ministers of the Gospel to agree constantly, perpetually; for if at any time contention breaketh forth, it proveth like a dead flie in a box of ointment, it makes all the other good they have to be ill spoken of; Let them never be so learned, so godly, so zealous, yet discord will scandalize all; and this constancy of Unity is to be preserved against all outward or inward causes of difference; outward is the persecution and opposition of enemies to the Church of God; inward is from our own corruptions and distempers. Against both these we are to watch, that so our peace be not weakned.
- 12. Its constant and individed.
1Thirdly, The Unity of the Father and the Son is an holy Unity. They are one in that which is holy and heavenly; They only will what is good, and the Sun may sooner become a dunghill, then they will what is evil; such an Unity let the Ministers of God endeavour after. An unity in error, an unity in mischief and wickedness, is such an unity as the devils have amongst themselves: That unity amongst Papists, which they boast of, is it not like the unity of Herod and Pilate, both agreeing against Christ?