A34165:952
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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2. There is a special Work of God attributed to him, that the Apostle takes into consideration, i.e. That he brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting Covenant; wherein we have many words, and every word its weight; and we shall scarce be able to weigh every one so, as to take the full sense and emphasis of them. In the words there is,
1. Something implied. 2. Something expressed.
1. Something implyed. 2. Something expressed.
1. Something implied; namely, That the Lord Jesus Christ was sometimes in the state of death; and that being in the state of death, it was not any ordinary power, way, or means, could ransom him. He was in the state and condition of the dead: he was, for a while, under the power and dominion of Death: his body, for the space of three days, lay in the Grave, and in that sense, he was under the dominion of death, as all dead men are. The Great Shepherd of the sheep could not have his own life, in some sense: no interest he had in God, by virtue of Sonship or any of his Offices, could save him from death, though the Son of God, and Head of the Church; and Christ looked upon it so far from being below him, as he thought it necessary for him, and it was his glory, J•. 10.11, 12. I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep: but he that is an Hireling, and not the Shepherd: whose own the sheep are not, seeth the Wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep and fleeth, &c. Hirelings they have no spirit or principle in them, that they should lay down their lives for the sheep: but he so much respected his Fathers glory, and good of his flock, finding there was no way to bring them to salvation, as he denied himself in all other respects, for their good: so in this respect lays down his life for them. And herein the Church of God seems to have a deadly kind of wound, to be at a deadly loss,