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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 XXXVIII. Of the Excellency and Necessity of Believing in Christ as a Mediator; That it is acceptable to God as well as Obedience to a Command; Yet withal showeth the difficulty of it, and whence it comes to pass that the Children of God, sensible of their sins. are so hardly brought to believe; As also why ungodly men think it so easy a thing.
SERMON XXXVIII. Of the Excellency and Necessity of Beleeving in Christ as a Mediatour; That it is acceptable to God as well as Obedience to a Command; Yet withall sheweth the difficulty of it, and whence it comes to passe that the Children of God, sensible of their sinnes. are so hardly brought to beleeve; As also why ungodly men think it so easie a thing.
OUR Saviour commended their Obedience in the former part of this Verse; Now he doth the like for their Faith; For Obedience without faith is but a maimed and lame Sacrifice; yea, there cannot be any acceptation of our Obedience because of the imperfection of it, unless Faith cover it in Christ, and this our Saviour now undertakes, that the Disciples were not as the Pharisees and Jews who trusted in the righteousness of their Obedience, but when they had done all looked out for a Mediator to stand between Gods perfection, the Laws perfection, and thine Imperfection: Their Faith is commended by our Saviour, 1. In the Acts. 2. The quality. 3. The object of it.