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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. There is a passive Conformity of which the Text speaks; To be like him in his Sufferings, To have the same hard measure in the world as he had, Rom 8.1 We are said to be predestinate, to be conformable unto Christ in this very particular; What befell Christ God hath so ordered that it should befall us, Not indeed for ⟨p. 438⟩the same end, for Christs Sufferings were not for himself, or because he had sinned, but to make an atonement to God for us; But our sufferings are for our sins not to satisfy Gods justice, but to humble us, and to make us in some measure to feel how much Christ suffered for us, what the wrath and anger of God was he endured for us; This passive resemblance then unto Christ in his state of humiliation God hath ordained all believers unto; That as it behoved Christ to suffer, and so to enter into Glory, Thus it doth behove every godly man through many Tribulations to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; As he had a Crown of Thorns before a Crown of Glory, as he must drink of the Brook, and then lift up his head, so it must be with all his Disciples, and this is matter of Comfort though otherwise grievous to flesh and blood.
2. There is a passive Conformity of which the Text speaks; To be like him in his Sufferings, To have the same hard measure in the world as he had, Rom 8.1 We are said to be predestinate, to be conformable unto Christ in this very particular; What befell Christ God hath so ordered that it should befal us, Not indeed for ⟨p. 438⟩the same end, for Christs Sufferings were not for himself, or because he had sinned, but to make an atonement to God for us; But our sufferings are for our sins not to satisfie Gods justice, but to humble us, and to make us in some measure to feel how much Christ suffered for us, what the wrath and anger of God was he endured for us; This passive resemblance then unto Christ in his state of humiliation God hath ordained all beleevers unto; That as it behoved Christ to suffer, and so to enter into Glory, Thus it doth behove every godly man through many Tribulations to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; As he had a Crown of Thorns before a Crown of Glory, as he must drink of the Brook, and then lift up his head, so it must be with all his Disciples, and this is matter of Comfort though otherwise grievous to flesh and bloud.