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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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This is to make Christ of no effect, whosoever repents, believeth, doth any holy duty for this end, is guilty of spiritual Idolatry, he maketh another Christ to himself, besides the true Christ, but then there are other ends for which we do these duties, partly because God hath commanded them as the way to walk in, if ever we will be saved, so that though our holy life deserve not heaven, yet our wicked and ungodly life deserveth hell, and then partly to glorify God, and to testify our thankfulness and love to him, yea, there is an inseparable connection between a man interested in Christ and a holy life, as there is in the fire with heat and light.
This is to make Christ of no effect, whosoever repents, beleeveth, doth any holy duty for this end, is guilty of spiritual Idolatry, he maketh another Christ to himself, besides the true Christ, but then there are other ends for which we do these duties, partly because God hath commanded them as the way to walk in, if ever we will be saved, so that though our holy life deserve not heaven, yet our wicked and ungodly life deserveth hell, and then partly to glorifie God, and to testifie our thankfulnesse and love to him, yea, there is an inseparable connexion between a man interested in Christ and a holy life, as there is in the fire with heat and light.
In the next place Consider the properties of this work Christ •••nished.1
- 1The properties of the work which Christ finished.
And 1. It was a work of infinite value and worth; whatsoever Christ did it had a transcendent excellency because he was God as well as man, so that we are not to consider those works he did as of a mere man,