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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. Consider how Christ is to be conceived in his people, and that the Scripture represents several ways.
3. Consider how Christ is to be conceived in his people, and that the Scripture represents several waies.
1. Christ is in us by way of Union, 1so as to be made one mystical person with us: I shall not be large in discovering this, because I have touched on it heretofore, only the first step of Christs being in us is by uniting of himself to us, for we are by nature estranged from him, and lie as so many lumps of earth devoid and destitute of all spiritual life and motion till Christ unite himself to us, so that as it was Gods wonderful power to call those dry bones and unite them together; Thus it is also his admirable power to unite himself to a Believer, Christ doth not stay till we first unite our selves to him, but he joineth himself first to us, and this is the first step of Christs saving grace in us.
1. Christ is in us by way of Ʋnion, 1so as to be made one mystical person with us: I shall not be large in discovering this, because I have touched on it heretofore, only the first step of Christs being in us is by uniting of himself to us, for we are by nature estranged from him, and lie as so many lumps of earth devoid and destitute of all spirituall life and motion till Christ unite himself to us, so that as it was Gods wonderfull power to call those dry bones and unite them together; Thus it is also his admirable power to unite himself to a Beleever, Christ doth not stay till we first unite our selves to him, but he joyneth himself first to us, and this is the first step of Christs saving grace in us.
- 1How Christ is in his people more particularly.