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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. As man Christ was subject to the Law of God, and so was bound to give that worship and Religious Service to God which the Law did require, so that when Christ prayed he did it as fulfilling a duty, he had voluntarily submitted unto; Even as when he came to be baptized, he told John, it behoved him to fulfil all Righteousness, Matth. 3.15. It was part of his Righteousness to be baptized, because as man he was made a member of the Church; Therefore Matth. 4. he brings that command of worshipping and serving God alone, as reaching to him, intimating he was bound by that Command as well as other men: So Joh 4. he tells the Woman of Samaria, We worship, we know not what: He puts himself in the Number of Worshippers, So that Prayer being part of Gods worship, and a chief part of it, no wonder if Christ was constant in it: Hence we read of spending nights in Prayer, yea, in his Troubles, his Prayers were accompanied with strong Cries and Agonies, and the more they increased, the more earnestly he prayed.
2. As man Christ was subject to the Law of God, and so was bound to give that worship and Religious Service to God which the Law did require, so that when Christ praied he did it as fulfilling a duty, he had voluntarily submitted unto; Even as when he came to be baptized, he told John, it behoved him to fullfill all Righteousnesse, Matth. 3.15. It was part of his Righteousnesse to be baptized, because as man he was made a member of the Church; Therefore Matth. 4. he brings that command of worshiping and serving God alone, as reaching to him, intimating he was bound by that Command as well as other men: So Joh 4. he tels the Woman of Samaria, We worship, we know not what: He puts himself in the Number of Worshipers, So that Praier being part of Gods worship, and a chief part of it, no wonder if Christ was constant in it: Hence we reade of spending nights in Praier, yea, in his Troubles, his Prayers were accompanied with strong Cries and Agonies, and the more they encreased, the more earnestly he praied.