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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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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.
2. The mercy, grace and goodness of God, that it was his only begotten Sonne 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 Sonne to us.
3. Christs Mission is the original and root of all the Church Mission that is. As the Father hath sent me, so I have sent you. So that Christ being sent, is thereby made the head of his Church; all Church-power is seated in him, as the original, and therefore all the Missions of Church-officers now, is reduced to this, as the fountain of all; Therefore they are the Ministers of Christ, the Ambassadors of Christ, they administer all things in his Name, and every thing is done by his Authority. It's disputed in Politics, In whom all civil power is immediately and originally seated, whether in the people, or no, or in the supreme Officers? But here in Divinity about Church-power, the Scripture doth easily resolve it, Mat. 28.18, 19, 20. All power is given me in heaven and in earth; Therefore he appoints Officers and Ordinances in his Church, and so the Ministers of God have their Church-power from Christ. Though the people may choose and design the man, and Church-officers put him into the Office, yet the Office and Power it self is of Christ.