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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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Sermon 100: Of Jesus Christ as Priest, Sacrifice, and Altar; The Properties of that Sacrifice; The…
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Seventhly, This Sacrifice is that which Christ presents to his Father;1 The Socinians would have Christ performing his Priestly Office only in Heaven, but it's plain he did it on earth, only what he once did, he constantly presents to his Father, and the minding of God with this is a far more efficacious thing, then that of the Rainbow, God when he beholds this will not again drown the world, and when he looketh on Christ will not condemn the humbled sinner. Therefore Christ is described Rev. 10. with a Rainbow upon his head, to signify as some think the pacificatory virtue that is in Christ.
Seventhly, This Sacrifice is that which Christ presents to his Father;1 The Socinians wold have Christ performing his Priestly Office only in Heaven, but it's plain he did it on earth, only what he once did, he constantly presents to his Father, and the minding of God with this is a farre more efficacious thing, then that of the Rainbow, God when he beholds this will not again drown the world, and when he looketh on Christ will not condemn the humbled sinner. Therefore Christ is described Rev. 10. with a Rainbow upon his head, to signifie as some think the pacificatory vertue that is in Christ.
- 1VII. It's that Christ presents to his Father.
Eighthly, The purity of the Sacrifice is not to be forgotten; He is called the pure and spotless Lamb, 1 Pet. 1.19. As it behoved us to have a Priest without sin,1