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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
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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.
Lastly, He is with them in blessing their labours, and giving increase to their planting and watering, as Christ promised, I will be with you to the end of the world; By their labours he pulls down the Kingdom of Satan; As soon as the Apostles preached Satan began to fall like Lightning from Heaven.
Lastly, He is with them in blessing their labours, and giving encrease to their planting and watering, as Christ promised, I will be with you to the end of the world; By their labours he puls down the Kingdom of Satan; As soon as the Apostles preached Satan began to fall like Lightning from Heaven.
Now the Grounds of this peculiar love are,
1. Because they have the same general call and Office, as Christ himself hath; As thou hast sent me, I have sent them; Though there be many particular differences, yet in the general they agree; Christ was sent to publish the Word of God to bear witness to the Truth; and because of this the world opposed him, reviled him, and he endured great contradiction of sinners; It was therefore Christs own case, and then he will pity such as are tempted like him.
1. Because they have the same generall call and Office, as Christ himself hath; As thou hast sent me, I have sent them; Though there be many particular differences, yet in the general they agree; Christ was sent to publish the Word of God to bear witnesse to the Truth; and because of this the world opposed him, reviled him, and he endured great contradiction of sinners; It was therefore Christs own case, and then he will pity such as are tempted like him.