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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.
R. 2 2. We are thus to believe in Christ because in and through him God doth magnify his glory: His attributes of grace, mercy, and unspeakable bounty are exalted through Christ; If then we do not thus receive Christ, we deprive God of all this intended glory; The Creation of the world, and all the merciful wondrous works God hath done for his Church, were not intended to exalt God as Christ in all his benefits, and therefore if it be so great a sin not to give God the glory in them, how inexcusable will it be to fail in this.
R. 2 2. We are thus to beleeve in Christ because in and through him God doth magnifie his glory: His attributes of grace, mercy, and unspeakable bounty are exalted through Christ; If then we do not thus receive Christ, we deprive God of all this intended glory; The Creation of the world, and all the mercifull wondrous works God hath done for his Church, were not intended to exalt God as Christ in all his benefits, and therefore if it be so great a sin not to give God the glory in them, how inexcusable will it be to fail in this.
R. 3 3. The insufficiency of all other things to satisfy the broken and troubled heart, may justly make the godly fly to this; So the disciples being to acknowledge Christ as the Mediator, they say, Whither should we go, thou hast the words of Eternal life; If they run to their duties, to their graces, these are too weak to lean upon, They are as Noah's Dove that finds the waters covering all the Mountains and highest Trees; Seeing then we must have something to fix all our hopes and affections upon, and all other things will fail, how unwise are the godly if they keep a moment from Christ.
R. 3 3. The insufficiency of all other things to satisfie the broken and troubled heart, may justly make the godly fly to this; So the disciples being to acknowledge Christ as the Mediatour, they say, Whither should we go, thou hast the words of Eternal life; If they run to their duties, to their graces, these are too weak to lean upon, They are as Noahs Dove that findes the waters covering all the Mountains and highest Trees; Seeing then we must have something to fix all our hopes and affections upon, and all other things will fail, how unwise are the godly if they keep a moment from Christ.