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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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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.
8. There is the inseparableness of this union; All natural unions will be dissolved,1 the wife will one day be parted from her husband, the child from his Father; They are not everlasting relations, but this is eternal; Even as Christ took his natural body never to be divided from it, so also he doth his mystical; and upon this union is the perseverance of Gods children immovably fixed: Christs members can never be broken from him and thrown into hell.
8. There is the inseparableness of this union; All natural unions will be dissolved,1 the wife will one day be parted from her husband, the childe from his Father; They are not everlasting relations, but this is eternall; Even as Christ took his natural body never to be divided from it, so also he doth his mystical; and upon this union is the perseverance of Gods children immovably fixed: Christs members can never be broken from him and thrown into hell.
- 1VIII.
9. There is the efficaciousness of it where Christ is united to the soul,1 there he puts forth his vigour and power, as Christ while on earth, wheresoever he went put forth his miraculous power, healing the blind, the lame, and raising the dead, thus also Christ dwelling in us can be no more hid then the Sun when it ariseth on the Earth.
9. There is the efficaciousnesse of it where Christ is united to the soul,1 there he puts forth his vigour and power, as Christ while on earth, wheresoever he went put forth his miraculous power, healing the blinde, the lame, and raising the dead, thus also Christ dwelling in us can be no more hid then the Sun when it ariseth on the Earth.