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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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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,1 though never so holy but as one of a divine nature.
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 meer man,1 though never so holy but as one of a divine nature.
- 11. Of infinite value.
2. They were Mediatory works, all that he did and suffered tended to a propitiation and reconciliation with God,1 so that as the nature of them was infinite, so the end of them was precious and admirable, what should man have done if Christ had not done thus.
- 12. Mediatory.
3. It was not only his work but our work, 1Alas Christ was not obliged to these duties for his own sake, but it was for our sake, so that the godly with great affection may consider of these works of Christ, for they concern thee; They are our works both impetrativè they merit for us, they procure good for us, and imputativè we are made the righteousness of God, as our sins were accounted his.