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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 32: Of the peculiar Propriety Gods People have in him and he in them.
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2. We are the Lords or Christs, for I make this all one, by way of redemption and conquest; We are bought with no less a price then the precious blood of Christ, and, as the Apostle urgeth, are therefore no more our own, 1 Cor. 6.20. Oh then consider how great a matter goeth to make thee the Lords ere this propriety could be attained, how dear did it cost Christ? he therefore became man and did undergo all those evils and reproaches, that we might be his; It cost him more to redeem us then to create us, so that it's no wonder if the people of God may look upon themselves as the Lords peculiar, for there is a good reason, They are bought at an high rate, Neither sin, or the devil, or the world have done so much for thee; Oh then what shameful ingratitude is it to live to them and not to God.
2. We are the Lords or Christs, for I make this all one, by way of redemption and conquest; We are bought with no lesse a price then the precious bloud of Christ, and, as the Apostle urgeth, are therefore no more our own, 1 Cor. 6.20. Oh then consider how great a matter goeth to make thee the Lords ere this propriety could be attained, how dear did it cost Christ? he therefore became man and did undergo all those evils and reproaches, that we might be his; It cost him more to redeem us then to create us, so that it's no wonder if the people of God may look upon themselves as the Lords peculiar, for there is a good reason, They are bought at an high rate, Neither sin, or the devil, or the world have done so much for thee; Oh then what shamefull ingratitude is it to live to them and not to God.
3. We are his new creature and a spiritual Creation; Thus he is said to create us, and we are said to be his Children born of him; We are Gal. 2.10. called his workmanship created to good works, so that in this particular the people of God are remarkably his, They have his Image put upon them, They have a divi nature bestowed upon them, It's he that hath made us not we our selves, even […] this sense