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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. Therefore the Scripture doth thus make an universal Proposition and Oblation of Christs death in the benefits of it, because now no Nations or particular persons are excluded, For although there be an Election of some only, and Christ had a special love in his death only to those that the Father had given him, yet because who these individual persons are is not manifested by God; Therefore the outward propounding of it is universal, not excluding any, Thus all the Invitations and commands are universal; Christ calls all that are heavy laden, all that thirst to come unto him; And although it he true that many even where the Gospel is preached, are given up to blind eyes and hard hearts: That the Gospel of Christ is a savour of death unto many, yet we not knowing who are thus inwardly withered and cursed, are to hope that to all those to whom the offer of the benefits of Christs death extends, even to them the death of Christ it self reacheth, and this may be thought the main reason why the Scripture useth such expressions about Christs death.
5. Therefore the Scripture doth thus make an universal Proposition and Oblation of Christs death in the benefits of it, because now no Nations or particular persons are excluded, For although there be an Election of some onely, and Christ had a special love in his death only to those that the Father had given him, yet because who these individual persons are is not manifested by God; Therefore the outward propounding of it is universall, not excluding any, Thus all the Invitations and commands are universal; Christ cals all that are heavy laden, all that thirst to come unto him; And although it he true that many even where the Gospel is preached, are given up to blinde eyes and hard hearts: That the Gospel of Christ is a savour of death unto many, yet we not knowing who are thus inwardly withered and cursed, are to hope that to all those to whom the offer of the benefits of Christs death extends, even to them the death of Christ it self reacheth, and this may be thought the main reason why the Scripture useth such expressions about Christs death.
6. It may use such expressions, For although the greater part of the world are such that perish, and Many are called but few are chosen,