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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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Sermon 18: The Necessity of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus as well as of God the Father.
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.
4. To know Christ implieth also that we acknowledge the great love of the Father in sending his only Son thus to mediate for us: Therefore it's added, whom thou hast sent, and for this reason it's said, he that knoweth and honoureth the Son, must know and honour the Father also, Joh. 5.23. For from the Father comes the Spring of all this love, He so loved the world that he gave his only Son, Joh. 3. and certainly this is of great consequence to know the Father sent Christ into the world, for hereby we may be assured that all the obedience and sufferings of Christ shall be accepted of by the Father; We need not fear it or doubt of it, for the Father did make the first motion as it were to the Son, Though the Son also did readily and voluntarily undertake it; Now how great a matter was this, for God the Father to do? Was not Christ the only begotten and beloved of the Father? Did he not come out of his Fathers bosom to the Cross, and shall not this make us return all thankfulness and obedience unto him.
4. To know Christ implieth also that we acknowledge the great love of the Father in sending his only Son thus to mediate for us: Therefore it's added, whom thou hast sent, and for this reason it's said, he that knoweth and honoureth the Son, must know and honour the Father also, Joh. 5.23. For from the Father comes the Spring of all this love, He so loved the world that he gave his only Son, Joh. 3. and certainly this is of great consequence to know the Father sent Christ into the world, for hereby we may be assured that all the obedience and sufferings of Christ shall be accepted of by the Father; We need not fear it or doubt of it, for the Father did make the first motion as it were to the Sonne, Though the Sonne also did readily and voluntarily undertake it; Now how great a matter was this, for God the Father to do? Was not Christ the only begotten and beloved of the Father? Did he not come out of his Fathers bosome to the Crosse, and shall not this make us return all thankfulnesse and obedience unto him.