Regi Addictissimus
Completely sold out to the King
We are to know that though all power be given to Christ, yet the administration and exercise of it is by His Spirit, called therefore the Spirit of Christ. By that He convinces, by that He converts, by that He comforts; insomuch that Christ told His disciples it was expedient He should bodily depart from them, but He would send the Comforter to them (John 15:26), so that not the pope but the Spirit of God is “vicar of Christ,”13 in Christ’s stead; hence it is that all the same glorious and spiritual effects in the Scripture are sometimes attributed to the Father, sometimes to Christ, and sometimes to the Holy Ghost in their peculiar appropriation. Christ by His Spirit is to be expected and prayed for as the author of all that grace and comfort we stand in need of.
Anthony Burgess. Christ's Prayer Before His Passion: Expository Sermons on John 17, volume 1. Reformation Heritage Books.
