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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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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.
Again that which is here called keeping of the Word is in other places called keeping the Commandments, only this is more sweet and kindly, for Word doth properly relate to him that is a Doctor or Teacher, Commandment to him that is a Law-giver; Now there is a great difference between the Imperious Sovereignty of a Law-giver and the benign condescension of a Teacher, but here we take it largely for all that God hath revealed to us, and our Saviour saith, they have kept the Fathers Word, not his, because they looked upon Christ as the Mediator sent from God, and so received not his Word as the word of a man but as of God through and by him.
Again that which is here called keeping of the Word is in other places called keeping the Commandments, only this is more sweet and kindly, for Word doth properly relate to him that is a Doctor or Teacher, Commandment to him that is a Law-giver; Now there is a great difference between the Imperious Soveraignty of a Law-giver and the benign condescention of a Teacher, but here we take it largely for all that God hath revealed to us, and our Saviour saith, they have kept the Fathers Word, not his, because they looked upon Christ as the Mediatour sent from God, and so received not his Word as the word of a man but as of God through and by him.
1Obs. That those only can plead a propriety and interest in God and Christ, who are careful to keep his Word; All others do but cry Peace, Peace to themselves, when damnation is at hand; So that this truth will do for the present as Christ will do at the day of judgement, set the Goats on the left hand, and the sheep on the right, It will be like the Fan in Christs hand, it will winnow the chaff from the wheat; Let us therefore consider how much is comprehended in this phrase, to keep the Word of God.
1Obs. That those only can pleade a propriety and interest in God and Christ, who are careful to keep his Word; All others do but cry Peace, Peace to themselves, when demnation is at hand; So that this truth will do for the present as Christ will do at the day of judgement, set the Goats on the left hand, and the sheep on the right, It will be like the Fanne in Christs hand, it will winnow the chaff from the wheat; Let us therefore consider how much is comprehended in this phrase, to keep the Word of God.