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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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We will instance in some particulars by which it's apparent that we are prone to know Christ after a corporal manner:1
- 1Wherein mens proneness appears to know Christ after the flesh.Wherein mens pronenesse appears to know Christ after the flesh.
As 1. All those doctrinal Opinions in Popery about visible Images and Crucifixes to represent God and Christ, what are these but even to desire Christ to be here bodily with us still: And because this cannot be, therefore we have a Crucifix, we keep some bodily representation of him; This the Papists commend as of special use to stir up devotion; Hence some of them make the same kind of worship to be given to a Crucifix as to Christ himself; Thus Christ is wholly neglected spiritually, he is not propounded as a Mediator to Faith, but as a pleasing picture to the sense; And thus also though God be a Spirit, and he would not appear to the Israelites in any similitude, that they might not make any Image of him, yet how prone were they to make similitudes of God, and is this only among Papists? Are not the common people so ignorant and superstitious as to be doting upon such visible Objects, Even as little Children love to play with Babies.
As 1. All those doctrinal Opinions in Popery about visible Images and Crucifixes to represent God and Christ, what are these but even to desire Christ to be here bodily with us still: And because this cannot be, therefore we have a Crucifix, we keep some bodily representation of him; This the Papists commend as of special use to stir up devotion; Hence some of them make the same kinde of worship to be given to a Crucifix as to Christ himself; Thus Christ is wholly neglected spiritually, he is not propounded as a Mediatour to Faith, but as a pleasing picture to the sence; And thus also though God be a Spirit, and he would not appear to the Israelites in any similitude, that they might not make any Image of him, yet how prone were they to make similitudes of God, and is this only among Papists? Are not the common people so ignorant and superstitious as to be doting upon such visible Objects, Even as little Children love to play with Babies.