A30241:1767
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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1. In all this eminency and profession of Christ, he was an hypocrite, he had no true love to Christ, nor saving faith, as John 6. where at the beginning of all, Christ said, One is a devil, the present tense is not to be neglected, and the text saith, Even then he did not believe, viz. in a saving manner: Oh what cause of fear and trembling is this! Who can hear of Judas that preacheth, that worketh miracles, that is often in duties with Christ, yet he is not sincere? and therefore you may observe, that our Saviour in all his Sermons and Parables, did press this as the sum of all, to look we build, upon a Rock, to see that we dig deep in our building, that we be good ground, receiving the seed in a deep and honest heart. No subject did our Saviour so much insist on as this, when yet we would think in those days, when Christs teaching and miracles were so visible, and outward encouragements to profess him, wholly wanting, that none should follow him, but upon sincere and upright grounds.
1. In all this eminency and profession of Christ, he was an hypocrite, he had no true love to Christ, nor saving faith, as John 6. where at the beginning of all, Christ said, One is a devil, the present tense is not to be neglected, and the text saith, Even then he did not believe, viz. in a saving manner: Oh what cause of fear and trembling is this! Who can hear of Judas that preacheth, that worketh miracles, that is often in duties with Christ, yet he is not sincere? and therefore you may observe, that our Saviour in all his Sermons and Parables, did press this as the summe of all, to look we build, upon a Rock, to see that we dig deep in our building, that we be good ground, receiving the seed in a deep and honest heart. No subject did our Saviour so much insist on as this, when yet we would think in those dayes, when Christs teaching and miracles were so visible, and outward encouragements to profess him, wholly wanting, that none should follow him, but upon sincere and upright grounds.