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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 2. Hath Christ thus an eternal being,1 then here we see his immutable and unchangeable affections to those that are his: He is not as man subject to changes and alterations, loving and then casting off again; As God is immutable so also is Christ, and therefore though the people of God be subject to many changes and variable affections, yet they are to comfort themselves in Christ, who is yesterday, and to day, and the same for ever; Though thou art not the same, yet Christ is the same; Thou art sometimes believing, sometimes again cast down, sometimes thou enjoyest Christ, and sometimes thou losest him, and knowest not where to find him; O but Christ is always in the same love, in the same care over thee, and this should provoke thee at last to get to the same disposition, To be like Christ whatsoever changes, conditions, or alterations go over thy head, still to be the same, as the rock in the Sea, the Sun in the heavens.
Ʋse 2. Hath Christ thus an eternal being,1 then here we see his immutable and unchangeable affections to those that are his: He is not as man subject to changes and alterations, loving and then casting off again; As God is immutable so also is Christ, and therefore though the people of God be subject to many changes and variable affections, yet they are to comfort themselves in Christ, who is yesterday, and to day, and the same for ever; Though thou art not the same, yet Christ is the same; Thou art sometimes beleeving, sometimes again cast down, sometimes thou enjoyest Christ, and sometimes thou losest him, and knowest not where to finde him; O but Christ is alwaies in the same love, in the same care over thee, and this should provoke thee at last to get to the same disposition, To be like Christ whatsoever changes, conditions, or alterations go over thy head, still to be the same, as the rock in the Sea, the Sunne in the heavens.
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