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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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3. This Priestly-office of Christ is not only in the oblation of his body, but also in his prayers for us. Thus the Priest did in the Law, so that his prayers had more in them, then any private man, it being a prayer by one authorized and appointed thereunto. Christ in this also is our High priest; his prayers were of two sorts, 1. Those that he prayed for, while here on the earth, whereof this described in the Chapter is a chief one; and the other is that Intercession, which he still makes in heaven for us;1 they differ in the manner of petitioning, for those on earth were with great cries and groans debasing himself; but this in heaven is nothing but the presentation of his will, that what he had prayed for, and obtained for his people, should be applied to them. Now Christs prayer is infinitely above the High priests prayers, for this is the prayer of him who is God as well as man, it's of him who is the beloved Son of the Father: so that nothing can be in justice denied to Christs prayer, because it's a meriting and an obliging prayer.
3. This Priestly-office of Christ is not only in the oblation of his body, but also in his prayers for us. Thus the Priest did in the Law, so that his prayers had more in them, then any private man, it being a prayer by one authorized and appointed thereunto. Christ in this also is our High priest; his prayers were of two sorts, 1. Those that he prayed for, while here on the earth, whereof this described in the Chapter is a chief one; and the other is that Intercession, which he still makes in heaven for us;1 they differ in the manner of petitioning, for those on earth were with great cries and groans debasing himself; but this in heaven is nothing but the presentation of his will, that what he had pray'd for, and obtained for his people, should be applied to them. Now Christs prayer is infinitely above the High priests prayers, for this is the prayer of him who is God as well as man, it's of him who is the beloved Son of the Father: so that nothing can be in justice denied to Christs prayer, because it's a meriting and an obliging prayer.
- 1Wherein this prayer, and his intercession in heaven differ.