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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.
1Obs. That all believers are united to Christ, and in him to the Father; This Union of Believers with Christ is an unspeakable mystery; The Scripture represents it under many similitudes, yet we cannot conceive of it according to its dignity; But as the hypostatical Union of the two Natures in Christ into one person doth exceed our comprehension, so likewise doth the mystical Union of believers with Christ, and in him with the Father, yet because the Foundation of all our Christian comfort is in this Union,2 and Unity is our whole spiritual Treasury;
- 1Observ. That all believers are united to Christ, and in him to the Father.
- 2I. Consider those Scripture-expressions to represent this Unity.
Let us follow the Scripture Light in Explication of it: And
First, It is good to Consider what synonymous or equivalent expressions the Scripture hath to represent this Unity; And we read of an emphatical one, 1 Cor. ⟨p. 587⟩6.17. [Greek or Hebrew], He that is joined to the Lord; The metaphor is from glue, that doth so closely and inseparably join things together, He is made one Spirit, Is not this a wonderful expression of that intimate Union the believer hath with God? He is made one Spirit with him not essentially as if he were made infinite, omniscient, &c. but as it were morally, as they say, Amicus est alter ego: Another word is [Greek or Hebrew]