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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.
3. To the holy Ghost, that he is sent both by the Father and the Son, for the application of those benefits which he shall procure for us: Therefore the Father is said to send him, Joh. 14.16. and Christ saith, He will send him, Joh. 16 7. Thus he is called, The Spirit of Christ, as well as the spirit of God, because now he is sent by Christ as a Mediator. The holiness in Adam was wrought by the Spirit of God, as the third Person in the Trinity, absolutely considered, but now it causeth holiness in believers, relatively as the Spirit of Christ; So that in Gods dispensations about mans salvation, there is an appropriated order in the operations of the three Persons.
Secondly, The mission or sending of Christ here spoken of, doth not relate to him, as the second Person, but as he is Mediator, for so as he is the Son of God, he is not sent but begotten, And thus the Scripture when it speaks of him in that respect, calleth him, The only begotten Son of God; but this mission is in time, and of a voluntary dispensation, whereas the other was natural and of eternity, Christ was always the Son of God, but not always sent to be the Mediator of his Church, unless in the purpose and decree of God: So that this sending of Christ respects him as God and man, and denoteth that incarnation of his, with the discharge of all those duties, that thereby he undertook.
Secondly, The mission or sending of Christ here spoken of, doth not relate to him, as the second Person, but as he is Mediator, for so as he is the Son of God, he is not sent but begotten, And thus the Scripture when it speaks of him in that respect, calleth him, The only begotten Son of God; but this mission is in time, and of a voluntary dispensation, whereas the other was natural and of eternity, Christ was alwayes the Sonne of God, but not alwayes sent to be the Mediatour of his Church, unless in the purpose and decree of God: So that this sending of Christ respects him as God and man, and denoteth that incarnation of his, with the discharge of all those duties, that thereby he undertook.