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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1. There is the Office of a Mediator, whereby he was sent to be a Saviour of his people from their sins; and this is the sending the Scripture so much speaks of.

:2347p. 489§VIII

But 2. There is a sending as a Prophet, to teach and guide his Church, and of this kind of sending the text speaks; for we may not think that this is the meaning, that as the Father sent Christ to redeem the world and purge it from it's iniquities, so the Apostles were also sent to be Redeemers and Saviours; but as Christ was to be the great Prophet, whom the Father would send to be a light to the world, so he did appoint the Apostles, as subordinate lights, to take away the ignorance and profaneness that was in it. Christ then is sent as the great Doctor and Teacher of his Church, who doth not only externally teach, but internally, by giving a seeing eye, and an understanding heart.

But 2. There is a sending as a Prophet, to teach and guide his Church, and of this kinde of sending the text speaks; for we may not think that this is the meaning, that as the Father sent Christ to redeem the world and purge it from it's iniquities, so the Apostles were also sent to be Redeemers and Saviours; but as Christ was to be the great Prophet, whom the Father would send to be a light to the world, so he did appoint the Apostles, as subordinate lights, to take away the ignorance and prophaneness that was in it. Christ then is sent as the great Doctor and Teacher of his Church, who doth not only externally teach, but internally, by giving a seeing eye, and an understanding heart.

:2348p. 489§VIII

These things are implied in Christs Mission, now let us consider the Properties of it.

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

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.