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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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That the glory which Christ hath, he communicates one way or other to his people;1 Christ thinketh it not sufficient to have glory himself, but he doth communicate the blessed effects thereof, so that they are made glorious likewise by him: The two similitudes that Christ taketh to himself illustrate this, as that of an Head, If the head be crowned with glory, that redounds to all the body, because the head and the whole body are considered as one, and thus Christ though he be exalted to all glory and honour, and so it is his own personal privilege, yet all this is for our good, and that by being glorious himself he might also make us glorious; Hence some expound this glory of Christ concerning his Sonship, that he is the Son of God, and indeed it cannot be denied but that this is an eminent part of this glory; Now he hath not this Sonship only, but Joh. 1. He gives us power also to become the Sons of God; Only he is the Son of God by nature, we by grace and adoption; Another similitude is that of an husband and wife so often mentioned in the Canticles, and by the Apostle; Now if the husband be a glorious King or Potentate, though he have a Wife of mean and despised birth, yet he communicates all his glory to her, and though God say of his essential glory, He will not give it to another; yet Christ gives of his glory in some sense to his people, though they are not thereby made equal to him in glory.
That the glory which Christ hath, he communicates one way or other to his people;1 Christ thinketh it not sufficient to have glory himself, but he doth communicate the blessed effects thereof, so that they are made glorious likewise by him: The two similitudes that Christ taketh to himself illustrate this, as that of an Head, If the head be crowned with glory, that redounds to all the body, because the head and the whole body are considered as one, and thus Christ though he be exalted to all glory and honour, and so it is his own personal priviledge, yet all this is for our good, and that by being glorious himself he might also make us glorious; Hence some expound this glory of Christ concerning his Sonship, that he is the Son of God, and indeed it cannot be denied but that this is an eminent part of this glory; Now he hath not this Sonship only, but