A30241:1760
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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As for those disputes, Why Christ would choose such an one, whom he knew to be an hypocrite, and especially advance him to be an Apostle, seeing that the Scripture commends such strict care, about the promoting fit and worthy men to that Office, we can but give conjectures, no solid reasons, as the Ancients do.
As for those disputes, Why Christ would chuse such an one, whom he knew to be an hypocrite, and especially advance him to be an Apostle, seeing that the Scripture commends such strict care, about the promoting fit and worthy men to that Office, we can but give conjectures, no solid reasons, as the Ancients do.
Secondly, This is but the beginning of honour Christ put upon him, for after they had a while continued thus with him, then he instituted a new Office of Apostleship, and gave some men this divine Commission and Office, the chiefest place in the Church: For you must observe, as a good Antidote against the Anabaptists, who because Christ chose Fishermen and illiterate persons to preach the Gospel, conclude such persons may still preach, that there cannot be a stronger Argument against them, then this instance of our Saviour; for when Christ chose his Apostles, they left their trades, they did not continue in their civil vocations, but they followed Christ, whereas these men would that persons should follow their trades, and yet preach always, whereas Paul bids Timothy, though of extraordinary gifts, To give himself wholly to study and reading, 1 Tim 4.13.
Secondly, This is but the beginning of honour Christ put upon him, for after they had a while continued thus with him, then he instituted a new Office of Apostleship, and gave some men this divine Commission and Office, the chiefest place in the Church: For you must observe, as a good Antidote against the Anabaptists, who because Christ chose Fishermen and illiterate persons to preach the Gospel, conclude such persons may still preach, that there cannot be a stronger Argument against them, then this instance of our Saviour; for when Christ chose his Apostles, they left their trades, they did not continue in their civil vocations, but they followed Christ, whereas these men would that persons should follow their trades, and yet preach alwayes, whereas Paul bids Timothy, though of extraordinary gifts, To give himself wholly to study and reading, 1 Tim 4.13.