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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Fifthly, The Unity of Father and Son is a well-ordered Unity. Though there be a Unity of Nature, yet this breedeth not a confusion of the Persons: The Father is the Father,¹ and the Son is the Son; for all this Unity, they are not unus, though they he unum, and thus the unity amongst Gods Ministers, and the ⟨p. 327⟩people must not degenerate into confusion; The difference between shepherd and sheep, between Governors and governed in the Church must be maintained; When the Devil cannot divide, then on the contrary he would bring unity into confusion; The difference of gifts and offices shall not be kept up, as Corah and his Company told Aaron, They took too much upon them, all the Congregation was holy as well as they: But the Apostle though he press unity fervently, and that because we are one body, yet he showeth a difference between the members in that body, every member is not the eye; so neither is every one a Preacher, an Officer in the Church. This unity ends in all schism and disorder at last.

Fifthly, The Ʋnity of Father and Son is a well-ordered Ʋnity. Though there be a Unity of Nature, yet this breedeth not a confusion of the Persons: The Father is the Father,¹ and the Sonne is the Sonne; for all this Unity, they are not unus, though they he unum, and thus the unity amongst Gods Ministers, and the ⟨p. 327⟩people must not degenerate into confusion; The difference between shepherd and sheep, between Governours and governed in the Church must be maintained; When the Devil cannot divide, then on the contrary he would bring unity into confusion; The difference of gifts and offices shall not be kept up, as Corah and his Company told Aaron, They took too much upon them, all the Congregation was holy as well as they: But the Apostle though he presse unity fervently, and that because we are one body, yet he sheweth a difference between the members in that body, every member is not the eye; so neither is every one a Preacher, an Officer in the Church. This unity ends in all schism and disorder at last.

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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.