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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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We come to the fourth and last observable particular, viz. That these words are such as the Father gave Christ to communicate to his Disciples: so that Christ himself did not take upon him any other doctrine, or preach any other matter then what he had received: Hence he did so often say,1 The doctrine was not his but his Fathers, Joh. 7.16. Neither did he speak of himself but what he heard the Father.
- 1Obs. The Ministers of the Gospel are to preach Gods Word.
Obs. That the Ministers of the Gospel are to preach that and only that, which ⟨p. 208⟩they have out of Gods Word; As Paul said, That which I have received of the Lord, that I delivered unto you; And the Prophets Introduction is commonly Thus saith the Lord; If Pythagoras Disciples were satisfied with nothing but ipse dixit, how much rather must the believer whose Faith in the very nature of it doth relate to some word or Testimony; Hence it is that they are called the Ambassadors of God, 2 Cor. 4. And such must not go a word from their Commission, We are to be Conduits not Fountains; The Word of God must exire per te non a te, as Bernard; It's the good thing committed to our trust, 2 Tim. 1.14. We must therefore give the same that is committed unto us, we have received gold, we must not deliver copper; Thou art not author but custos Religionis, not Res ingenii but doctrinae.
Obs. That the Ministers of the Gospel are to preach that and only that, which ⟨p. 208⟩