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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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.

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 Embassadours of Christ, they administer all things in his Name, and every thing is done by his Authority. It's disputed in Politiques, In whom all civil power is immediately and originally seated, whether in the people, or no, or in the supream 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.

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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.

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