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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. Christ did not only meritoriously purchase this Unity by his death, but in him exemplarily and formally we are made one: So that Christ is both the moral cause of this unity, and the exemplar also; for he by being both God and man in one Person, made God and man one, when there was such an infinite distance before, there is made the most intimate union that can be, even an hypostatical union between God and man: Now though we cannot attain to such an union, yet by reason of this, all believers are made one with God, and amongst themselves: Hence is that often expression of our being in him, of engrafting in him, of living in him, all which do denote our intimate union with him; so that as Christ is not divided in himself: The Divine Nature doth not will one thing, and the humane Nature the contrary, but they have the same will; thus it ought to be here, one believer should not judge one thing, and another the contrary, one love one thing, and another the contrary, but as Christ and the Father were one, so ought they to be.
3. Christ did not onely meritoriously purchase this Ʋnity by his death, but in him exemplarily and formally we are made one: So that Christ is both the moral cause of this unity, and the exemplar also; for he by being both God and man in one Person, made God and man one, when there was such an infinite distance before, there is made the most intimate union that can be, even an hypostatical union between God and man: Now though we cannot attain to such an union, yet by reason of this, all believers are made one with God, and amongst themselves: Hence is that often expression of our being in him, of ingraffing in him, of living in him, all which do denote our intimate union with him; so that as Christ is not divided in himself: The Divine Nature doth not will one thing, and the humane Nature the contrary, but they have the same will; thus it ought to be here, one believer should not judge one thing, and another the contrary, one love one thing, and another the contrary, but as Christ and the Father were one, so ought they to be.
The last particular is, That God in Christ is the only cause of unity amongst believers. Christ as Mediator procureth it, and God through his merits vouchsafeth it, and this comprehends these particulars: