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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
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Sermon 111: That a Gospel-Ministry is to continue to the end of the world. And for what ends▪
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Secondly, It's to be affirmed, That in the first plantation of Christs Church, there were some things extraordinary, but that doth not infer every thing thus appointed was extraordinary. The Office of the Apostles, who had a Commission to go over the world, and had an universal Authority, being furnished to that end with infallible assistance, was extraordinary. Christ seedeth his Church spiritually, as he did once the bodies of men miraculously, first, he took bread himself, then he gave bread to his Disciples, and they gave it to the people. Thus Christ he preached the word of life, and then he commanded the Apostles to preach, who instituted others in their room. The Office then of Apostles and Prophets, with the gift of miracles, were extraordinary in the first constituting of the Church; but then ordinary Officers were afterwards required; As with the people of Israel, while in the wilderness, God made miraculous provision for them, but when once settled in Canaan, then their Manna and other miraculous provision failed them.
Secondly, It's to be affirmed, That in the first plantation of Christs Church, there were some things extraordinary, but that doth not inferre every thing thus appointed was extraordinary. The Office of the Apostles, who had a Commission to go over the world, and had an universal Authority, being furnished to that end with infallible assistance, was extraordinary. Christ seedeth his Church spiritually, as he did once the bodies of men miraculously, first, he took bread himself, then he gave bread to his Disciples, and they gave it to the people. Thus Christ he preached the word of life, and then he commanded the Apostles to preach, who instituted others in their room. The Office then of Apostles and Prophets, with the gift of miracles, were extraordinary in the first constituting of the Church; but then ordinary Officers were afterwards required; As with the people of Israel, while in the wilderness, God made miraculous provision for them, but when once setled in Canaan, then their Manna and other miraculous provision failed them.
1And if you say, How shall we know, what is an extraordinary Office, and what is an ordinary Office, seeing the Apostle,