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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 84: Of Conformity to Christ in not being of the world, And in his Sufferings.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Christ is said Not to be of the world, 1Now that is a higher degree then the Disciples can be, for Christ as God is no ways of the world, and then take him as man, yet being conceived by the holy Ghost he was not of the world in a natural way, 1 Cor. 15.47. The Second Adam is the Lord from Heaven, opposed to the first Adam, who is said to be of the Earth earthly.
2. Christ is said Not to be of the world, 1Now that is a higher degree then the Disciples can be, for Christ as God is no waies of the world, and then take him as man, yet being conceived by the holy Ghost he was not of the world in a natural way, 1 Cor. 15.47. The Second Adam is the Lord from Heaven, opposed to the first Adam, who is said to be of the Earth earthly.
- 1How Christ is said not to be of the world.
And then 3. If it be taken for the wickedness of it, Then Christ was never so of the world, Therefore here is a difference between Christ and his Disciples, for though they were not now of the world, yet once they were plunged in sin, and corrupted through pollutions as others were, but Christ never was of the world in this sense,
And then 3. If it be taken for the wickednesse of it, Then Christ was never so of the world, Therefore here is a difference between Christ and his Disciples, for though they were not now of the world, yet once they were plunged in sinne, and corrupted through pollutions as others were, but Christ never was of the world in this sence,