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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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1Hence 4. This union is wholly spiritual and invisible, Christ is the head and we the body, Christ the husband and we the wife, but all this is after a spiritual and mysterious manner; The ligaments are spiritual, insomuch that this is better felt experimentally then palpably expressed; Therefore to carnal and natural men it's wholly a paradox, They cannot imagine what it is, Even as spiritual and immaterial objects cannot be discerned by the eye, No man hath seen God at any time, So neither can this spiritual union be naturally perceived, if we should preach all our life time upon it, a natural man would never understand one iota or tittle about it, Therefore when the Apostle speaking of the union between man and wife, Eph. 5.32. thereby representing the union of Christ and his Church, addeth, This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and his Church; Oh pray therefore that thou mayest experimentally feel this union with Christ; That something within may close with this, and thou mayest be able to say, O Lord, though I read it in no Book, hear it in no Sermon, yet my own heart can discern it.
1Hence 4. This union is wholly spiritual and invisible, Christ is the head and we the body, Christ the husband and we the wife, but all this is after a spirituall and mysterious manner; The ligaments are spiritual, insomuch that this is better felt experimentally then palpably expressed; Therefore to carnal and natural men it's wholly a paradox, They cannot imagine what it is, Even as spiritual and immaterial objects cannot be discerned by the eye, No man hath seen God at any time, So neither can this spiritual union be naturally perceived, if we should preach all our life time upon it, a natural man would never understand one iota or tittle about it, Therefore when the Apostle speaking of the union between man and wife, Eph. 5.32. therby representing the union of Christ and his Church, addeth, This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and his Church; Oh pray therefore that thou maist experimentally feel this union with Christ; That something within may close with this, and thou maist be able to say, O Lord, though I reade it in no Book, hear it in no Sermon, yet my own heart can discern it.