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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 22: Of Christs finishing the work he undertook, with the End and Properties of it, and the…
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SERMON XXII. Of Christs finishing the work he undertook, with the End and Properties of it, and the great comfort of it to Believers.
SERMON XXII. Of Christs finishing the work he undertook, with the End and Properties of it, and the great comfort of it to Beleevers.
JOH. 17.4. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do.
THE former part, which contained Christs holy profession of the end he had in all that he did and suffered on earth, hath been dispatched. We now come to consider the Means wherein, or by which, and that in the later part. And herein consider the means or manner it self, expressed under this notion, Work. Christ came not into the world to have his ease and pleasure and outward glory, but to Work: This obedience of his it was both active and passive. 2. Here is the description of the nature or quality of this work, that which was given him by the Father to do, so that in all this there was a stipulation and an agreement with the Father. 3. There is his discharge of it, I have finished it: He did not leave it half done, there is nothing more can be required of Christ: This is a comfortable truth, for woe be to us, if Christ had not discharged all, if there had been any supply to be made by us.
THE former part, which contained Christs holy profession of the end he had in all that he did and suffered on earth, hath been dispatched. We now come to consider the Means wherein, or by which, and that in the later part. And herein consider the means or manner it self, expressed under this notion, Work. Christ came not into the world to have his ease and pleasure and outward glory, but to Work: This obedience of his it was both active and passive. 2. Here is the description of the nature or quality of this work, that which was given him by the Father to do, so that in all this there was a stipulation and an agreement with the Father. 3. There is his discharge of it, I have finished it: He did not leave it half done, there is nothing more can be required of Christ: This is a comfortable truth, for wo be to us, if Christ had not discharged all, if there had been any supply to be made by us.