CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 1: The Necessity of adding Prayer to Preaching for its good effect: Showing also what kind…Sermon 1: The Necessity of adding Prayer to Preaching for its good effect: Shewing also what kind…

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¹3. That Prayer is heavenly when the heart and affections are purified and sanctified fit for the enjoyment of God: In prayer we have an immediate approach unto and fellowship with God; There cannot be greater honour vouchsafed unto a creature then to be admitted to pray to him, but who is sufficient for this duty? The Heathens did often press this, that God was to be worshipped prae meant, but the Apostle more divinely, 1 Tim. 2.8. Lifting up holy or pure hands, Mat. 6. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God; A sore eye with corrupt humours is not fit to look on a bright object, and truly in all our prayers we should think nothing so comely as to have heavenly hearts for heavenly work; If the godly mans conversation even in buying, selling, and all other lawful employments, is to be heavenly, much more in prayer, then there should be Sabbatum mentis the rest of the Soul, there should be no distractions, no debasings of it by earthly affections, we should have a garden readily dressed for the Spouse to walk in; If Christs body was to be in a Sepulchre where none ever lay before, how much rather will whole Christ abide in a clean heart; The devil would not come into his Lodgings but because they were swept and ready garnished for him, how much rather will Christ expect that the soul should be in an holy and heavenly manner fitted for to enjoy him.

¹3. That Praier is heavenly when the heart and affections are purified and sanctified fit for the enjoyment of God: In praier we have an immediate approach unto and fellowship with God; There cannot be greater honour vouchsafed unto a creature then to be admitted to pray to him, but who is sufficient for this duty? The Heathens did often presse this, that God was to be worshiped prae mente, but the Apostle more divinely, 1 Tim. 2.8. Lifting up holy or pure hands, Mat. 6. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God; A sore eye with corrupt humours is not fit to look on a bright object, and truly in all our praiers we should think nothing so comely as to have heavenly hearts for heavenly work; If the godly mans conversation even in buying, selling, and all other lawfull emploiments, is to be heavenly, much more in praier, then there should be Sabbatum mentis the rest of the Soul, there should be no distractions, no debasings of it by earthly affections, we should have a garden readily dressed for the Spouse to walk in; If Christs body was to be in a Sepulchre where none ever lay btfore, how much rather will whole Christ abide in a clean heart; The devil would not come into his Lodgings but because they were swept and ready garnished for him, how much rather will Christ expect that the soul should be in an holy and heavenly manner fitted for to enjoy him.

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON II. The transcendent Excellency and Efficacy of Christs Prayer (in respect of the matter and nature thereof, as being Mediatory, his Person and Relation, &c.) held forth as a ground of unspeakable comfort to Believers.

SERMON II. The transcendent Excellency and Efficacy of Christs Praier (in respect of the matter and nature thereof, as being Mediatory, his Person and Relation, &c.) held forth as a ground of unspeakable comfort to Beleevers.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

SERMON II. The transcendent Excellency and Efficacy of Christs Prayer (in respect of the matter and nature thereof, as being Mediatory, his Person and Relation, &c.) held forth as a ground of unspeakable comfort to Believers.

SERMON II. The transcendent Excellency and Efficacy of Christs Praier (in respect of the matter and nature thereof, as being Mediatory, his Person and Relation, &c.) held forth as a ground of unspeakable comfort to Beleevers.