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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Now Christ must needs be heard always,

Now Christ must needs be heard alwaies,

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1. Because he is the Mediator and High Priest, and so poureth out his prayers in his own Name; If Christ should not be heard for himself, then he would need another Mediator for himself, and he must also pray in another's Name, which is highly derogatory unto his honour to imagine or think of.

1. Because he is the Mediatour and High Priest, and so powreth out his praiers in his own Name; If Christ should not be heard for himself, then he would need another Mediatour for himself, and he must also pray in anothers Name, which is highly derogatory unto his honour to imagine or think of.

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2. His Prayer is meritorious as well as his death, and so in justice nothing can be denied him.

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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.