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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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Because this is not the intended Subject I come to what Uses may be made of it. Is Christ thus of an Eternal being,1 then Woe be to those Doctrines and heretics that endeavour to spoil him of it; That deny it to him making him but a creature only of an higher rank, What creature can take the proper Name of God to him? What creature can create the world? What creature can be called God ⟨p. 152⟩blessed for evermore as he is? Rom. 9.5. What creature can say he is, and was, and was to come? Rev. 1.7. If so be that opposing the members of Christ be so great a sin, that Paul from heaven is reproved for it, and it's called kicking against the pricks, Men do not hurt Gods Children but themselves; how much greater is it immediately to oppose Christ himself, Jews and Heathens, and several heretics have risen up against him, and said there was a time when he was not, but yet still he is God in heaven, and the faith of Christians is firmly fixed on this; No wonder if as the devil of old, so of late he would destroy this Article, for if this be denied, what is Christianity but a mere humane Religion, we worship a man, We believe in a man, Take this away, and all satisfaction for sin, all reconciliation by his blood is removed, Take this away and the devils Kingdom will be promoted by Christianity as well as by Paganism; For here will be [Greek or Hebrew] the honour due unto God will be taken from him and given to a creature: And indeed in the Infancy of the Church it was no wonder if this darkness spread it self; But in these latter times after so much light of the Gospel, that any should let such poisonous Snakes as these lodge in their breasts, may make us cry out, O the depth of mans presumption and Gods severity!
Because this is not the intended Subject I come to what Uses may be made of it. Is Christ thus of an Eternal being,1 then Wo be to those Doctrines and heretiques that endeavour to spoil him of it; That deny it to him making him but a creature only of an higher rank, What creature can take the proper Name of God to him? What creature can create the world? What creature can be called God