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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.
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.
But 2. Those that were holy and godly, they looked upon all their bodily Sacrifices as Types of Christ; It was Christs blood they put confidence in; The Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews shows, that God intended Christ by those Sacrifices, and that the blood of Rams and Goats could never cleanse away sin, as this was Gods meaning, so the Priests and Prophets they explained the meaning thereof to the people, and sometimes they have clear promises of a Saviour, a Messiah to come to them, who shall be a Prince of Peace, and shall bear their sins for them, as Isaiah speaks like an Evangelist to this purpose, which made the Apostle say that the Prophets did bear witness of Christ; Abraham he saw Christs day and rejoiced, Act. 10.43. Now all the godly have the same faith Abraham had, therefore he is made the Father of the Faithful, so that what was covered in the Old Testament is revealed in the New; Christ they had, and Mediation they had, though the Knowledge of it was more obscure: Hence the Gospel is said to rise like the Light of the Sun.
But 2. Those that were holy and godly, they looked upon all their bodily Sacrifices as Types of Christ; It was Christs bloud they put confidence in; The Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews shews, that God intended Christ by those Sacrifices, and that the bloud of Rams and Goats could never clense away sinne, as this was Gods meaning, so the Priests and Prophets they explained the meaning thereof to the people, and sometimes they have clear promises of a Saviour, a Messias to come to them, who shall be a Prince of Peace, and shall bear their sinnes for them, as Isaiah speaks like an Evangelist to this purpose, which made the Apostle say that the Prophets did bear witnesse of Christ; Abraham he saw Christs day and rejoyced, Act. 10.43. Now all the godly have the same faith Abraham had, therefore he is made the Father of the Faithfull, so that what was covered in the Old Testament is revealed in the New; Christ they had, and Mediation they had, though the Knowledge of it was more obscure: Hence the Gospel is said to rise like the Light of the Sun.