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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Object. But you will say, If a man have Gifts and Abilities, why is not that enough?
Answ. I answer first, Christ had Gifts, and yet he would have a Calling. In the primitive times private Christians did abound with Gifts, yet they were to be set apart for that Office.
2. Gifts in civil offices and relations, do not give Power and Authority to do a thing: A private Lawyer may have as good, or better gifts, then the ⟨p. 500⟩Judge: Shall he therefore take upon him to condemn men? A man would not willingly have such Divinity in his own Family: It may be thy servant hath as good or better Gifts to manage thy household affairs, might be a better husband, doth not spend as thou wilt, Shall he take upon him to be thy Master? There is many a poor man hath a better gift to husband thy estate then thou doest, Shall he therefore seize upon thy revenues? There must be a Call, besides these Gifts.
2. Gifts in civil offices and relations, do not give Power and Authority to do a thing: A private Lawyer may have as good, or better gifts, then the ⟨p. 500⟩Judge: Shall he therefore take upon him to condemne men? A man would not willingly have such Divinity in his own Family: It may be thy servant hath as good or better Gifts to manage thy houshold affairs, might be a better husband, doth not spend as thou wilt, Shall he take upon him to be thy Master? There is many a poor man hath a better gift to husband thy estate then thou doest, Shall he therefore seize upon thy revenues? There must be a Call, besides these Gifts.