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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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1. It should not be accounted a slight and little sin to make any breaches or divisions in Gods Church, to do any thing through strife and vain-glory: Why? because Christ died against this; he as Mediator intended not only to save his people, but to bring them into one; Why then dost thou by thy contentions, by thy heretical opinions thus sin against Christs death, his intercession and his prayer are for the same effects? Now you see in this Chapter, that his prayer for unity is ingeminated over and over again, and therefore Christ had this even in his thoughts, in his very death; hence it was that also at his death▪ ⟨p. 618⟩he appointed the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, which though chiefly to seal Gods grace to us, yet it did also signify the love we ought to have to one another, as the Apostle urgeth, 1 Cor. 10. that as the several corns make up one bread, thus do the godly make up one mystical body: Divisions then in the Church are against Christs death, and against the Sacrament of his death; Shall we therefore run into such sins, that have such an heinous aggravation?
1. It should not be accounted a slight and little sinne to make any breaches or divisions in Gods Church, to do any thing through strife and vain-glory: Why? because Christ died against this; he as Mediatour intended not onely to save his people, but to bring them into one; Why then dost thou by thy contentions, by thy heretical opinions thus sinne against Christs death, his intercession and his prayer are for the same effects? Now you see in this Chapter, that his prayer for unity is ingeminated over and over again, and therefore Christ had this even in his thoughts, in his very death; hence it was that also at his death▪ ⟨p. 618⟩he appointed the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, which though chiefly to seal Gods grace to us, yet it did also signifie the love we ought to have to one another, as the Apostle urgeth, 1 Cor. 10. that as the several corns make up one bread, thus do the godly make up one mystical body: Divisions then in the Church are against Christs death, and against the Sacrament of his death; Shall we therefore runne into such sinnes, that have such an hainous aggravation?