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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.
To glorify is either when really that glory is exhibited, which was not before, and so God glorifieth us, or else when we celebrate, acknowledge, and declare that glory which is already possessed, and thus we glorify God; For when we glorify God, we add nothing to him, we do not make him more glorious then he is indeed, We cannot advantage him but our selves by serving of him, as a man by seeing doth not profit the Sun but himself, nor the thirsty Traveller by drinking refresh the Fountain but himself; Christ then being by the state of humiliation made lower then God, yea, lower then Angels, had this purity of intention in all that he did and all that he suffered, to glorify God.
To glorifie is either when really that glory is exhibited, which was not before, and so God glorifieth us, or else when we celebrate, acknowledge, and declare that glory which is already possessed, and thus we glorifie God; For when we glorifie God, we adde nothing to him, we do not make him more glorious then he is indeed, We cannot advantage him but our selves by serving of him, as a man by seeing doth not profit the Sun but himself, nor the thirsty Traveller by drinking refresh the Fountain but himself; Christ then being by the state of humiliation made lower then God, yea, lower then Angels, had this purity of intention in all that he did and all that he suffered, to glorifie God.
1Q. If you say, Was not the redemption and salvation of these the Father gave him his end, how then is the glory of God his end?
- 1Obj.
1A. The Answer is, the ultimate and chief end is Gods glory, The proxime and immediate was the salvation of man, and therefore in respect of the chief end this is the manner or the means of glorifying of God, and this is intended when he saith, He had finished his work.