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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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SERMON XLIV. Reasons why the Scripture speaks thus Universally about Christs Death when yet but some were intended; Also what Benefits Reprobates have by Christ With some arguments Further proving the Point of Christs dying not for every man but some.
SERMON XLIV. Reasons why the Scripture speaks thus Ʋniversally about Christs Death when yet but some were intended; Also what Benefits Reprobates have by Christ With some arguments Further proving the Point of Christs dying not for every man but some.
JOH. 17.9. I pray for them I pray not for the world.
WE are explaining this Doctrine that Christs Mediatory Prayer, and so his death is not for all and every one of mankind; Many introductory particulars have been commended to you; The last whereof was, That though the word useth universal expressions about Christs Death, as all men and the world, yet we are necessitated both from Scripture, reason, and experience, not to take them in a large universality but restrained and indefinite, specialis quaedam universalitas est, there is a special Universality, as Austin said.
WE are explaining this Doctrine that Christs Mediatory Praier, and so his death is not for all and every one of mankinde; Many introductory particulars have been commended to you; The last whereof was, That though the word useth universal expressions about Christs Death, as all men and the world, yet we are necessitated both from Scripture, reason, and experience, not to take them in a large universality but restrained and indefinite, specialis quaedam universalitas est, there is a special Universality, as Austin said.