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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.
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.
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.
2. It's his work and employment they are about, They go out in his Authority, They act in his Name, They preach him as the Messiah, They endeavour to bring all into Obedience to him, and therefore he will have a tender special care over them.
2. It's his work and emploiment they are about, They go out in his Authority, They act in his Name, They preach him as the Messias, They endeavour to bring all into Obedience to him, and therefore he wil have a tender special care over them.
3. Their work is a difficult and dangerous work; The Office is if faithfully discharged contrary to the lusts and ways of all men; No wicked man can love a true and godly Ministry, no more then soar eyes can endure the Sun.