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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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3. It's not the proper glory of a man as he is a Christian: And this is much to be considered, Every creature hath that which is a peculiar grace and glory to it, in its kind: So Seneca, We praise a Vine, if it burden its branches with fruit, if another had golden grapes, or golden leaves, the fruitful Vine would be preferred before it. So that what is comely to one, is not to another; now take man as he is a Christian, and so all his glory is spiritual and invisible; if you look upon Christ, who giveth him his glory, he had none external, nay, none had less of that then he, for he knew not where to lay his head, yet in regard of spiritual glory, he did abound in it, he had the glory of a Messiah, though not of a temporal Monarch; and thus it is here, that is only a Christians glory, which is excellency in Christianity. The Apostle speaking of women, saith, Whose glory, let not it be of embroidered apparel, &c. (1 Pet. 3.3.) but an humble and meek spirit: Hence the Kings daughter, is said, to be all glorious within, Psal. 45.13. That then which the world doth deride and contemn, that is indeed the greatest glory; and hence the glory of a Christian is to be justified, to be sanctified, to have communion and fellowship with the Father in Christ.
3. It's not the proper glory of a man as he is a Christian: And this is much to be considered, Every creature hath that which is a peculiar grace and glory to it, in its kinde: So Seneca, We praise a Vine, if it burden its branches with fruit, if another had golden grapes, or golden leaves, the fruitfull Vine would be preferred before it. So that what is comely to one, is not to another; now take man as he is a Christian, and so all his glory is spiritual and invisible; if you look upon Christ, who giveth him his glory, he had none external, nay, none had lesse of that then he, for he knew not where to lay his head, yet in regard of spiritual glory, he did abound in it, he had the glory of a Messias, though not of a temporal Monarch; and thus it is here, that is only a Christians glory, which is excellency in Christianity. The Apostle speaking of women, saith, Whose glory, let not it be of embroidered apparel, &c. (1 Pet. 3.3.) but an humble and meek spirit: Hence the Kings daughter, is said, to be all glorious within,