CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 102: Showeth, Why Christ who could do all things, yet put up Prayers What difference there i…Sermon 102: Sheweth, Why Christ who could do all things, yet put up Prayers What difference there i…

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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.

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2. This Prayer of Christ is always heard; We many times pray, and God doth deny us, because as the Apostle James saith Chapt. 4. vers. 4. We ask amiss, or we ask not in Faith; Now Christ had every thing concurrent that might make his Prayer successful: Therefore John 11.42. Christ there professeth God the Father heard him always: In that History many things are remarkable.

2. This Prayer of Christ is alwaies heard; We many times pray, and God doth deny us, because as the Apostle James saith Chapt. 4. vers. 4. We ask amisse, or we ask not in Faith; Now Christ had every thing concurrent that might make his Prayer successefull: Therefore

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SERMON CIII. In what respects the Benefits of Christs Mediation extend to all Believers alike, and in what not: For the Comfort of weak Christians, and such of them as are most contemptible in the eyes of the World.