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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Seventhly, Though Christ be sent, and be thus under command, yet we are not to think that this is done against his will, as if the Father did compel him to this work against his desire: No, how readily doth he profess his coming into the world, Lo, I come to do thy will, O Lord, thy Law is within my heart? Psal. 40.8. So that though the work was bitter to the humane nature, which appeared in those prayers he poured forth with so much agony, If it be possible, let this Cup pass away, yet he offers himself with all willingness to do this work: Oh no wonder, if this dispensation be called a mystery, not only in respect of the revelation of it, but also, because of the incomprehensibleness of it, we are never able to comprehend this length, and breadth, and depth of love which is in Christ Jesus.

Seventhly, Though Christ be sent, and be thus under command, yet we are not to think that this is done against his will, as if the Father did compell him to this work against his desire: No, how readily doth he profess his coming into the world, Loe, I come to do thy will, O Lord, thy Law is within my heart? Psal. 40.8. So that though the work was bitter to the humane nature, which appeared in those prayers he poured forth with so much agony, If it be possible, let this Cup pass away, yet he offers himself with all willingness to do this work: Oh no wonder, if this dispensation be called a mystery, not only in respect of the revelation of it, but also, because of the incomprehensibleness of it, we are never able to comprehend this length, and breadth, and depth of love which is in Christ Jesus.

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Eighthly, We may consider of a two-fold Office Christ was sent to, which yet cannot be well distinguished, because one is contained in the other.

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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.