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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Lastly, The Unity of the Father and the Son is most perfect and absolute. ¹It's an essential Unity, and although we cannot have this Unity, yet this should teach us to a•m at the highest degree of unity we can, not to suffer the least grudging and repining thoughts, not the least proud or envious thought against one another, to love more then father or children, then husband or wife, or any kind of relation that causeth unity, for they are but one flesh This calleth for an higher unity. We have heard the duty and necessity of unity, as also the causes that break it, what good remedies may be prescribed to keep this excellent harmony. Although I shall not launch into this whole point, deferring it, till vers. 21. yet I shall name some,

Lastly, The Ʋnity of the Father and the Sonne is most perfect and absolute. ¹It's an essential Unity, and although we cannot have this Unity, yet this should teach us to a•m at the highest degree of unity we can, not to suffer the least grudging and repining thoughts, not the least proud or envious thought against one another, to love more then father or children, then husband or wife, or any kinde of relation that causeth unity, for they are but one flesh This calleth for an higher unity. We have heard the duty and necessity of unity, as also the causes that break it, what good remedies may be prescribed to keep this excellent harmony. Although I shall not lanch into this whole point, deferring it, till vers. 21. yet I shall name some,

16. Most perfect and absolute.

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First, We are earnestly to pray to God, to bestow such a spirit of concord. ¹It's not the industry or policy of all the Conciliators, Moderators and Pacificators in the world, to bring this about, but God only can bend mens hearts for it. Hence we see our Saviour praying to the Father for this agreement, and God is called, The God of peace, because he only can make it in the Church and State. It's from Gods anger and wrath, when an evil contentious spirit is amongst the Prophets, as well as when he sends a lying spirit amongst them, when the Temple was to be destroyed, the rending of it was a prognostic of the desolation thereof; and when God will unchurch a Church, and make a Garden a Wilderness, commonly divisions are the antecedent causes of it.

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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.