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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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1That Christs Mediatory prayer, and so his Death is not for all the world but only some certain persons who are given by the Father to Christ; Christs prayer and Death is not intended for all and every particular man, but for some only; The Doctrine stands upon this bottom, Those that Christ would not pray for he died not for, neither was he a Mediator for, but not for the world would he pray, only some Elected by the Father, Therefore neither did he die for such.
1That Christs Mediatory praier, and so his Death is not for all the world but only some certain persons who are given by the Father to Christ; Christs praier and Death is not intended for all and every particular man, but for some only; The Doctrine stands upon this bottome, Those that Christ would not pray for he died not for, neither was he a Mediatour for, but not for the world would he pray, onely some Elected by the Father, Therefore neither did he die for such.
- 1Doct. Christs Mediatory Prayer and his Death is only for the Elect.Doct. Christs Mediatory Praier and his Death is only for the Elect.
This Point is controversial, and I have no Inclination to launch in such deeps, partly because plain practical matter is more profitable for the greater part that hear; It's bread and not a stone, fish and not a Serpent you ask for; and then partly the Question is of so vast a comprehension, that not one hour or many is sufficient to lead you into the very porch of it, much less all the secret rooms of it, and then partly it hath been agitated by the choicest men of Learning, that the former or latter Ages of the Churches ever had, and therefore should be handled in a Scholastical succinct manner, not popular and homiletical, as our Sermons are. These things I say do discourage, but because the doctrine of Universal grace and redemption is a gangrene, every where spreading, and an Idol which flesh and blood doth adore, and many specious pretences of Scripture are brought for it; Give me leave to say something; and because the controversy like Moses his face shineth gloriously, and is so sublime that the common eye cannot endure to look on it; I will put a Veil upon it, and condescend to the meanest capacity as much as the nature of the Truth will bear, and shall make way to clear and state the Doctrine