A30241:1958
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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Secondly, God and Christ who are thus the cause of their Office, hath appointed them their work, and endowed them with abilities thereunto. Their employment is to publish the Word of God, which is two-fold,
Secondly, God and Christ who are thus the cause of their Office, hath appointed them their worke, and endowed them with abilities thereunto. Their imployment is to publish the Word of God, which is two-fold,
1. The Word of the Law, to convince men of sin, to inform of duty, to make them sensible of their undone and damnable estate they are in. Thus they are first to be wise Physicians to detect and discover the disease, the danger and cause of it.
1. The Word of the Law, to convince men of sinne, to inform of duty, to make them sensible of their undone and damnable estate they are in. Thus they are first to be wise Phisicians to detect and discover the disease, the danger and cause of it.
Then secondly, There is the Word of the Gospel, which are the glad tidings of Gods favour, and Reconciliation with those that are humble and contrite before him. This is to publish the acceptable year of Jubilee, to such as were spiritually indebted, and under the thraldom of Gods wrath. This is a work in it self absolutely necessary; for what doth a sinner more want then these two things, the Law in it's use, and the Gospel in it's use. Men in their temporal necessities respect the Physicians, the Lawyers; but soul necessities are not apprehended; And as the necessity of it is so cogent, so the dignity and excellency is admirable. As the Soul and Heaven do far exceed all earthly things, so doth this subject all other.