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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.
2. Christ is in us, so that thereby we are made partakers of his person, not only the gifts of Christ and the graces of Christ, but Christ himself is in us, as Gal. 2.20. Christ liveth in me, and so Eph. 3.17. Christ dwells in our hearts, so that this King of glory doth not only bring his rich Ornaments and Hangings to beautify the soul, but he himself also in his own person resides there; Not indeed corporally as you heard, but spiritually, for though Christ be in heaven yet that is no hindrance to Faith; It's not distance of place that takes away from Faith no more then of time, but as future things are present to heaven, so are remote things locally present to it; Even as to the eye some Objects though ⟨p. 626⟩many miles distant are present, Faith therefore receiveth the person of Christ, and it's not only the graces of Christ but Christ himself that dwells in the soul, but yet by faith it is true many Divines affirm the graces of Gods Spirit to be in us, but the Scripture doth expressly relate even to the person of Christ and the Spirit as well as the graces flowing from them.
2. Christ is in us, so that thereby we are made partakers of his person, not only the gifts of Christ and the graces of Christ, but Christ himself is in us, as Gal. 2.20. Christ liveth in me, and so Eph. 3.17. Christ dwels in our hearts, so that this King of glory doth not only bring his rich Ornaments and Hangings to beautifie the soul, but he himself also in his own person resides there; Not indeed corporally as you heard, but spiritually, for though Christ be in heaven yet that is no hindrance to Faith; It's not distance of place that takes away from Faith no more then of time, but as future things are present to heaven, so are remote things locally present to it; Even as to the eye some Objects though ⟨p. 626⟩many miles distant are present, Faith therefore receiveth the person of Christ, and it's not only the graces of Christ but Christ himself that dwels in the soul, but yet by faith it is true many Divines affirm the graces of Gods Spirit to be in us, but the Scripture doth expresly relate even to the person of Christ and the Spirit as well as the graces flowing from them.