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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 part of their glory, because the happiness and blessedness of a Church, is in their Communion-graces. A Church denoteth some society and company; Now the advantage of such improvements is by union, if one part of the body be divided from the other, there is no suppeditation of mutual help, therefore there are nerves and ligaments in the body, to unite each part to other: You see in a civil society, if there be not union, the glory of it presently dieth: divisions, like moths, rise from within, and do immediately consume; If then the happiness of believers lie in their communion-graces and duties; What can be more glorious then unity, which is the only means to procure subserviency to one another, as if several Cities were supplied by pipes of water one to another, if those pipes be stopped or cut, it brings a necessary destruction.
3. It's part of their glory, because the happinesse and blessednesse of a Church, is in their Communion-graces. A Church denoteth some society and company; Now the advantage of such improvements is by union, if one part of the body be divided from the other, there is no suppeditation of mutual help, therefore there are nerves and ligaments in the body, to unite each part to other: You see in a civil society, if there be not union, the glory of it presently dieth: divisions, like moths, rise from within, and do immediately consume; If then the happinesse of believers lie in their communion-graces and duties; What can be more glorious then unity, which is the only means to procure subserviency to one another, as if several Cities were supplied by pipes of water one to another, if those pipes be stopt or cut, it brings a necessary destruction.
The second main particular is, That Christ purchased as Mediator this privilege as well as others. He did not only die to justify them, to sanctify them,1 but to unite them also: And this should teach us several things. As
The second main particular is, That Christ purchased as Mediatour this priviledge as well as others. He did not onely die to justifie them, to sanctifie them,