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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¹And first, Take notice of the necessity of it. Had not the Father sent his Son into the world, there had been no difference between the damned Angels and mankind: The world had been an hell, though the world had many Platoes and Aristotles, many Alexanders and Caesars, yet all this is nothing, if Christ had not been sent into the world: Oh then, look upon this, as the foundation of all truth and consolation, Christ is sent into the world! We could not have had a drop of comfort, any more then Dives in hell a drop of water, had not Christ been sent into the world.

¹And first, Take notice of the necessity of it. Had not the Father sent his Son into the world, there had been no difference between the damned Angels and mankinde: The world had been an hell, though the world had many Platoes and Aristotles, many Alexanders and Caesars, yet all this is nothing, if Christ had not been sent into the world: Oh then, look upon this, as the foundation of all truth and consolation, Christ is sent into the world! We could not have had a drop of comfort, any more then Dives in hell a drop of water, had not Christ been sent into the world.

1The necessity of Christs being sent.

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2. The mercy, grace and goodness of God, that it was his only begotten Son he sent. He sent Prophets, and he sent divers Messengers, but never was such mercy, as when he sent his Son, Heb. 1. The very Angels, though the benefit of his sending did not directly belong to them, yet for this they sing, Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, and good-will towards men. Though God is good in giving food and raiment, in creating the world for us, yet all come short of sending his Son to us.

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