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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.
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.
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2. Consider the restriction or limitation of this glorifying of God, from the place where, I have glorified thee on earth: That is mentioned, because here ⟨p. 103⟩only on the earth was he to be in a state of debasement, here only he was to work, in heaven he was to receive his glory; The Schoolmen use to call a man while he was in this life the way to heaven, viator, and when he is possessed of glory, they call him comprehensor: Now they say, That Christ was both viator and comprehensor together, but if they mean, that in this life he possessed all that glory which he should have in heaven, that is false, for we see him here praying for it, and other places God promiseth it as a reward of his obedience and sufferings: Indeed the humane nature of Christ was always united personally to the godhead, but there was a suspension of that glorious influence and happiness while on the earth.
2. Consider the restriction or limitation of this glorifying of God, from the place where, I have glorified thee on earth: That is mentioned, because here ⟨p. 103⟩only on the earth was he to be in a state of debasement, here only he was to work, in heaven he was to receive his glory; The Schoolmen use to call a man while he was in this life the way to heaven, viator, and when he is possessed of glory, they call him comprehensor: Now they say, That Christ was both viator and comprehensor together, but if they mean, that in this life he possessed all that glory which he should have in heaven, that is false, for we see him here praying for it, and other places God promiseth it as a reward of his obedience and sufferings: Indeed the humane nature of Christ was alwaies united personally to the godhead, but there was a suspension of that glorious influance and happinesse while on the earth.