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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.
2. Being unsanctified, doth imply, That even the holy things we are employed about, do not sanctify us, but we rather pollute them. Hag. 2. He that was unclean, though he touched the holy things, though he ran to the Temple and the Altar, yet he was not thereby sanctified, but he rather polluted them, and thus while a man is unsanctified, those very duties, prayers and ordinances, he doth run unto, will condemn him, as appeareth Isa. 1. by that severe expostulation with them, that abounded in their Sacrifices, yet did not wash them or make them clean.
2. Being unsanctified, doth imply, That even the holy things we are imployed about, do not sanctifie us, but we rather pollute them. Hag. 2. He that was unclean, though he touched the holy things, though he ranne to the Temple and the Altar, yet he was not thereby sanctified, but he rather polluted them, and thus while a man is unsanctified, those very duties, prayers and ordinances, he doth runne unto, will condemn him, as appeareth Isa. 1. by that severe expostulation with them, that abounded in their Sacrifices, yet did not wash them or make them clean.
3. There is implied an utter unfitness and indisposition to any good work; as on the other side, a vessel sanctified was meet for his masters use; So that till we be sanctified by Christs blood, we have no fitness for any holy duty, iron can as well swim and logs fly, as a natural man be prepared to do that which is holy and supernatural.
3. There is implied an utter unfitnesse and indisposition to any good work; as on the other side, a vessel sanctified was meet for his masters use; So that till we be sanctified by Christs blood, we have no fitnesse for any holy duty, iron can as well swim and logs flie, as a natural man be prepared to do that which is holy and supernatural.