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 5: Of the Nature and Manifestations of that Glory which Christ prayed for, and is invested…Sermon 5: Of the Nature and Manifestations of that Glory which Christ praied for, and is invested…

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4. This glory given to Christ will be wonderfully expressed in the day of judgement, for 1. then he shall make known his power and majesty to all the world; what glorious descriptions have we in the Scripture of Christ coming to judge? with what terror and trembling to all beholders? what great alterations and changes will be upon the whole world? What a glorious train of Angels accompanying him? never was such a sight seen, No words can express it; Now all this is to be managed by the Sonne. The Father hath given all judgement to him, and he hath appointed to judge the world by that man Christ Jesus, Act. 17.21. Howsoever then while he was in the flesh, he was judged by others, he was as a worm and no man, yet then a great alteration will be made; He that was a Lamb shall then be like a roaring Lion; The day of Judgement is the greatest day that ever was or shall be, called therefore the day and that day, and the day of the Lord, and the judgement of all things and persons in the world is given to Christ the Son of God, and this tends to his exceeding great glory, for then his friends and loyal Subjects shall receive their full and final reward, and then his stubborn and obstinate enemies shall receive their complete punishments, all the honour Ahasuerus could put on his favourites was nothing ⟨p. 29⟩to this spiritual and heavenly glory, which the Father will put on the Son, for it is a spiritual glory, that was a temporal in earthly things only; There are those who would make the kingdom and glory of Christ to be in a great manner temporal, and consisting in a Monarchy here on earth, but as Christs Priesthood was wholly spiritual, so also is his kingly glory, for as he hath made the godly Kings and Priests only in a spiritual sense, thus was he also; Here then is work for the eyes of Faith, Come with the Queen of Sheba to see all the glory Christ hath, not with a bodily eye, but an eye of faith, and thy admiration will be greater then hers was.

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON VI. Of Heavenly mindedness, Showing that we should seek both Earthy and Heavenly blessings, chiefly for this end, viz. That God may be glorified.

SERMON VI. Of Heavenly mindednesse, Shewing that we should seek both Earthy and Heavenly blessings, chiefly for this end, viz. That God may be glorified.

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SERMON VI. Of Heavenly mindedness, Showing that we should seek both Earthy and Heavenly blessings, chiefly for this end, viz. That God may be glorified.

SERMON VI. Of Heavenly mindednesse, Shewing that we should seek both Earthy and Heavenly blessings, chiefly for this end, viz. That God may be glorified.