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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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?

¹Thirdly, The Ʋnity of the Father and the Sonne is an holy Ʋnity. They are one in that which is holy and heavenly; They onely will what is good, and the Sunne may sooner become a dunghill, then they will what is evil; such an Unity let the Ministers of God endeavour after. An unity in errour, 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?

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¹Fourthly, The Unity of the Father and Son, is full of love and bowels to mankind. They both are one in this, to procure the salvation of believers: The Father he wills to send his only begotten Son, to die that reproachful death, and to be an atonement for mans sins; The Son doth voluntarily and readily undertake this bitter cup, then they are one to procure the salvation of man; If the Father and the Son had disagreed, no salvation had been possible: Oh then that the Ministers of the Gospel would make this use of their Unity, that they might all as one man endeavour the conversion and edification of souls! How happy would it be to lay all differences and disputes aside, that they might bring people to the saving knowledge of God? What a spur should this be to us? Shall the Father not think his Son too dear? Shall the Son not think his blood too dear for mens souls, and shall we ruin souls by contentions? Do we not take the devils work then upon us, and not Christs?

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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.