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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.
Let us now Consider the comfortable advantage of these Prayers of Christs unto us: And
Let us now Consider the comfortable advantage of these Praiers of Christs unto us: And
1. See the love of Christ, that he doth remember our good in his prayers, as well as his own; It is not enough to pray for his own Glory, but he beggeth and prayeth for ours also: Paul speaketh of it as his great affection and Love to some that he made mention always of them in his Prayers, he never prayed for himself but for them also: And thus we see Christ though ready to be offered up, and to die such a tormented, ignominious Death, So that he might justly be taken up with Prayer for himself only, yet he doth the same time think of his Church, and all that shall believe in him; Oh what comfortable Refreshment and Encouragement should this be to the dejected and humbled Soul! That Christ doth in his Prayer remember and consider of thee as well as his own Glorification.
1. See the love of Christ, that he doth remember our good in his praiers, as well as his own; It is not enough to pray for his own Glory, but he beggeth and prayeth for ours also: Paul speaketh of it as his great affection and Love to some that he made mention alwaies of them in his Prayers, he never praied for himself but for them also: And thus we see Christ though ready to be offered up, and to die such a tormented, ignominious Death, So that he might justly be taken up with Praier for himself only, yet he doth the same time think of his Church, and all that shall beleeve in him; Oh what comfortable Refreshment and Encouragement should this be to the dejected and humbled Soul! That Christ doth in his Prayer remember and consider of thee as well as his own Glorification.