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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That none may undertake the public Office of the Ministry without a sending or ⟨p. 492⟩authoritative Call thereunto; If Christ did it not (as ye heard) and the Apostle Heb. 5. is diligent in observing of that, much less may any men do it for the very word sending doth imply a superior, who hath power to send, and also the inferiority and passiveness of those that are sent. Therefore Rom. 10.13, 14, 15. You have there a Ladder like Jacobs reaching from earth to Heaven, where calling on God requires believing, believing requireth hearing, hearing requireth preaching, and preaching requireth sending: See here the golden Chain of our Salvation in an ordinary way, No calling no faith, no faith no hearing, no hearing no preaching, no preaching no sending: They are all required in their peculiar way with the same necessity, and therefore take heed of endangering your souls by despising the lawful Ministry of Christ, How shall they believe saith the Apostle, without this?
That none may undertake the publike Office of the Ministry without a sending or ⟨p. 492⟩authoritative Call thereunto; If Christ did it not (as ye heard) and the Apostle Heb. 5. is diligent in observing of that, much lesse may any men do it for the very word sending doth imply a superiour, who hath power to send, and also the inferiority and passivenesse of those that are sent. Therefore Rom. 10.13, 14, 15. You have there a Ladder like Jacobs reaching from earth to Heaven, where calling on God requires beleeving, beleeving requireth hearing, hearing requireth preaching, and preaching requireth sending: See here the golden Chain of our Salvation in an ordinary way, No calling no faith, no faith no hearing, no hearing no preaching, no preaching no sending: They are all required in their peculiar way with the same necessity, and therefore take heed of endangering your souls by despising the lawful Ministry of Christ, How shall they beleeve saith the Apostle, without this?