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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.
Now it's the glory of believers to be at Unity,
1. Because this will exalt them in the very hearts and thoughts of their greatest enemies. What is glory, but the clara notitia, the famous acknowledging of the excellency of such a thing? Now nothing will sooner divulge the fame, and like the heavens, make the noise thereof to go through the Land, then unity and agreement: As Solomons wisdom spread it self over the world: Insomuch that many came from afar to see and admire it: Thus it will be also for the Churches accord, therefore the Psalmist put an Ecce upon it, Behold how good and comely it is for brethren to be of one accord, Psal 133.1, 2. Thus you heard, The Heathens admired the love of primitive Christians, Ecce quam se mu•uo diligenti, & fratres vocant, whereas now we may say, Behold how they hate and oppose one another, calling one another by all uncharitable names. It's unity then, that makes the Churches fame to be over the world
2. Unity is the glory of the Church, because it ariseth from the beauty and pulchritude of it. The beauty of a thing is the glory of it; now beauty doth arise from the sweet harmony and proportion of all the parts, and this is the unity of the Church, when every member thereof is harmoniously joined unto another; when there is no dissonancy or difference: Certainly, It's a better wish to see the Church in this glory, then that of Austins, to see Rome in all her temporal glory: If any member be deformed, or unproportionable to the other parts: How unlovely and uncomely doth it make that body? So it is here, if any make a rent, be proud, froward or opposite, the glory thereof is departed.
2. Ʋnity is the glory of the Church, because it ariseth from the beauty and pulchritude of it. The beauty of a thing is the glory of it; now beauty doth arise from the sweet harmony and proportion of all the parts, and this is the unity of the Church, when every member thereof is harmoniously joyned unto another; when there is no dissonancy or difference: Certainly, It's a better wish to see the Church in this glory, then that of Austins, to see Rome in all her temporal glory: If any member be deformed, or unproportionable to the other parts: How unlovely and uncomely doth it make that body? So it is here, if any make a rent, be proud, froward or opposite, the glory thereof is departed.