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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 122: Of the Glory which Christ communicates unto all his Disciples, even in this Life; And o…
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2. Of his Mediatory Glory, which he had as Mediator, his humane nature being filled with all grace, which glory though begun on earth, yet was consummated when exalted to the right hand of God in glory.
2. Of his Mediatory Glory, which he had as Mediatour, his humane nature being filled with all grace, which glory though begun on earth, yet was consummated when exalted to the right hand of God in glory.
3. There were the many effects which did concomitate this essential and Mediatory glory, some particulars whereof the Scripture mentions, as all the approbation ⟨p. 605⟩the Father gave from heaven to Christ, with all his miracles, doctrine, and other signs of his divine nature is called Christs glory, Joh. 1.14. We beheld his glory (by way of wonder and admiration, as the word signifieth) as the glory of the only begotten Son of God; Thus when Christ turned the water into wine, Joh. 2.11. It's said, he manifested his glory, and Joh. 11. the raising of Lazarus from the dead is called Gods glory, as working of miracles, So the love that the Father bestoweth on Christ, is called Christs glory at 24 verse in this Chapter, which may be a good Exposition of this, Therefore by these particulars we are by the glory of Christ to understand all things that did any way make him glorious, especially considered as a Mediator and an head of Believers; Now this glory he did not receive for himself only, but for us also; As the Sun of heaven hath its light not so much for it self as for the world, So Christ the Sun of Righteousness hath a complete fullness, not so much for himself as for us, that we might be made partakers of it; Hence all the work of grace in its progress to happiness is called glory, as