CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

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Sermon 38: Of the Excellency and Necessity of Believing in Christ as a Mediator; That it is accep…Sermon 38: Of the Excellency and Necessity of Beleeving in Christ as a Mediatour; That it is accep…

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JOH. 17.8. And they have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

JOH. 17.8. And they have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have beleeved that thou didst send me.

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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.

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, unlesse 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 righteousnesse of their Obedience, but when they had done all looked out for a Mediatour 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.

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The Acts are one of them large and comprehensive, They have believed.

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