CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 95: Of Christs Mission to the Office of a Mediator.Sermon 95: Of Christs Mission to the Office of a Mediatour.

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Fourthly, The Father did not only call him thus to this wonderful employment, but he did qualify and fit him with all abilities for that work, he poured out his Spirit upon his humane nature without measure. So that as those in the Old Testament, when called to any Office were anointed: Thus Christ had not a temporal, but a spiritual Unction, Psal 45.7. there God is said to anoint him with the oil of gladness; Therefore Joh. 6.27. the Father is said to have sealed him to this work. Thus Christ acknowledgeth, when he saith, a body thou hast prepared for me; the meaning is, he had an universal fitness for the work; and this also is of great comfort, that Christ is not only called to be our Saviour, but he is qualified with all sufficiency thereunto; there is nothing that a poor humbled sinner could desire in a Saviour, but there is a treasury of it in him, Col. 1. It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell: Oh then, why do not the people of God believe more firmly, and walk more comfortably? What do they want, which is not in this Christ? Shall Christ send his Officers to work, and endue them with proportionable ⟨p. 489⟩power, and shall not the Father send him with all fitness and fullness to that work?

Fourthly, The Father did not only call him thus to this wonderfull imployment, but he did qualifie and fit him with all abilities for that work, he poured out his Spirit upon his humane nature without measure. So that as those in the Old Testament, when called to any Office were anointed: Thus Christ had not a temporal, but a spiritual Unction, Psal 45.7. there God is said to anoint him with the oyl of gladness; Therefore Joh. 6.27. the Father is said to have sealed him to this work. Thus Christ acknowledgeth, when he saith, a body thou hast prepared for me; the meaning is, he had an universal fitness for the work; and this also is of great comfort, that Christ is not only called to be our Saviour, but he is qualified with all sufficiency thereunto; there is nothing that a poor humbled sinner could desire in a Saviour, but there is a treasury of it in him,

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SERMON XCVI. Of the Public Office of the Ministry, Some Distinctions concerning it, And the Necessity of a lawful Call thereunto; Also showing wherein private Christians should exercise their Gifts both ordinarily and in extraordinary Cases.

SERMON XCVI. Of the Publike Office of the Ministry, Some Distinctions concerning it, And the Necessity of a lawfull Call thereunto; Also shewing wherein private Christians should exercise their Gifts both ordinarily and in extraordinary Cases.

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SERMON XCVI. Of the Public Office of the Ministry, Some Distinctions concerning it, And the Necessity of a lawful Call thereunto; Also showing wherein private Christians should exercise their Gifts both ordinarily and in extraordinary Cases.

SERMON XCVI. Of the Publike Office of the Ministry, Some Distinctions concerning it, And the Necessity of a lawfull Call thereunto; Also shewing wherein private Christians should exercise their Gifts both ordinarily and in extraordinary Cases.