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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
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Sermon 61: The great changes that even a Godly man is subject unto, in respect of the having and l…
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1. You must not think as if Christ by his bodily leaving of them, did also spiritually leave them; No, this would contradict that promise, Mat. 28. where Christ said, he would be with them to the end of the world: he did not change his presence, but the manner of his presence; it was before corporal and visible, now spiritual and invisible.
1. You must not think as if Christ by his bodily leaving of them, did also spiritually leave them; No, this would contradict that promise, Mat. 28. where Christ said, he would be with them to the end of the world: he did not change his presence, but the manner of his presence; it was before corporall and visible, now spirituall and invisible.
2. In that Christ said, While I was with them, it's necessarily inferred, that Christ is not corporally present every where; that his body is not every where, though Christ be every where: That is true of Christ in the concrete, which cannot be verified of each nature. As his Divine nature did not suffer, so neither can his humane be every where.
3. By this expression, saith Austin upon the place, we must not understand, as if there were a vicissitude in the Fathers and Sons keeping of us; as if the Son had kept them a while, excluding the Father; and now the Father was to keep them, excluding the Son; but the Father kept them even while Christ kept them; and Christ will keep them after his departure, while the Father keeps them, but not in the same manner; before there was a corporal visible keeping, but now spiritual.