The Theological Works of Edward Burton Author:Edward Burton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: Printed by S. Collingwood for John Henry Parker and J. G. and F. Rivington Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christian... more »ity / Denominations Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON V. JESUS CHRIST THE FORGIvER OF SINS. Cot. iii. 18. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. This is one of those passages which, though referring primarily to that particular body of Christians to whom the epistle was addressed, may yet be applied to all persons who call themselves Christians, of every country and every age. The advantage, the necessity of brotherly love and forgiveness, must come equally home to ourselves ; and the argument by which St. Paul enforces his precept applies equally to us and to all Christians as it did to the Colossians -- even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Christ has forgiven us for something which we had done against him, and we are exhorted to behave in the same manner toward each other, i. e. to forgive those who have done any thing against us. The text will naturally recall to us many other passages of Scripture in which we are exhorted to forgive one another, upon the same principle ofreceiving forgiveness from God. But the argument of St. Paul in the text is not exactly of this kind : he exhorts the Colossians to forgiveness, and holds out to them the forgiveness of Christ, not as a boon which was hereafter to be received, but as one which had been rece...« less