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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4. Take notice of the completeness and perfection of this Mission, Heb. 1.1. God who at sundry times spake by his Prophets, and by several w•yes, doth now speak only by his Son. So that since Christs mission, we are not now to expect any other extraordinary missions, Christ he came as the fullness of all; and as he said, That all those who went before him, were thieves and robbers, viz. who pretended to be the Christ, and did not come in his Name, so all those are that shall come after, which come not in his Name; What a sad judgement are the Jews, once the people of God, delivered up unto, that look still for a Messiah to be sent, and so have a veil upon their eyes and their hearts?

4. Take notice of the compleatness and perfection of this Mission, Heb. 1.1. God who at sundry times spake by his Prophets, and by several w•yes, doth now speak only by his Son. So that since Christs mission, we are not now to expect any other extraordinary missions, Christ he came as the fulness of all; and as he said, That all those who went before him, were thieves and robbers, viz. who pretended to be the Christ, and did not come in his Name, so all those are that shall come after, which come not in his Name; What a sad judgement are the Jews, once the people of God, delivered up unto, that look still for a Messias to be sent, and so have a veil upon their eyes and their hearts?

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5. Consider the seasonableness of the time when he was sent, Gal. 4.4. Its called the fullness of the time. When the Church of the Jews was become like a wilderness or a dunghill, when all the former Prophets were forgotten, when there was an universal blackness upon the Church, then Christ was sent: Even as Moses was sent to the people of Israel, when their oppression was doubled. God sent Christ seasonably.

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