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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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1Secondly, This unity must be a directed and ordered unity. This unity must not be confusion. That Chaos and unformed heap God created at first, it was one thing, but it was confused, it was without form. An house demolished makes one heap, but it's a ruinous disordered one: So then the Scripture unity is that which keeps the order and distinction God hath appointed; and indeed this is greatly to be pressed, lest under this pretence of unity, that all the people of God are one, we should introduce a confusion, and make Christs body, ⟨p. 575⟩Monstrum horrendum, &c. Though the Church be that one body of Christ, yet in it there are distinct members, and all have their several operations: So that the Apostle argueth against those that would confound this order; Are all the members of the body an eye? 1 Cor. 12.14, 15, 16. This hath many times sorely troubled the Church. Men through pride and corrupt ends would not religiously keep that order and distinction God hath made in his Church: Hence the Apostle so often presseth the people to hear, to obey, to submit themselves unto their Governors, to have them in high esteem for their works sake, 1 Thess. 5.13. And why is all this? But because while this unity of order is preserved, the Church it self and godliness is preserved.
1Secondly, This unity must be a directed and ordered unity. This unity must not be confusion. That Chaos and unformed heap God created at first, it was one thing, but it was confused, it was without form. An house demolished makes one heap, but it's a ruinous disordered one: So then the Scripture unity is that which keeps the order and distinction God hath appointed; and indeed this is greatly to be pressed, lest under this pretence of unity, that all the people of God are one, we should introduce a confusion, and make Christs body, ⟨p. 575⟩Monstrum horrendum, &c. Though the Church be that one body of Christ, yet in it there are distinct members, and all have their several operations: So that the Apostle argueth against those that would confound this order; Are all the members of the body an eye?