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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. By Election and Sanctification to Eternal Life.
2. A peculiar segregation or destination to some Office; Of this latter our Saviour speaks afterwards, say some, when he said, None had perished of those whom the Father had given him but the Son of Perdition; But of the former he speaks v. 2. He giveth Eternal Life to every one that was given him, and v. 9. They were given him out of the world, whereas Judas was always of the world, and thus it is taken here; So that to be given by Christ is for the Father freely out of his mere good pleasure to choose some in Christ to Eternal Life, sanctifying and calling of them in time, So that the Fountain of all the good we have is the mere grace and love of God; The discriminating difference why Christ prayeth not for the world but his Disciples, and in them all believers, is not from any good or worth in them, but merely from the mere gift of God.
2. A peculiar segregation or destination to some Office; Of this latter our Saviour speaks afterwards, say some, when he said, None had perished of those whom the Father had given him but the Son of Perdition; But of the former he speaks v. 2. He giveth Eternall Life to every one that was given him, and v. 9. They were given him out of the world, wheras Judas was alwaies of the world, and thus it is taken here; So that to be given by Christ is for the Father freely out of his meer good pleasure to choose some in Christ to Eternall Life, sanctifying and calling of them in time, So that the Fountain of all the good we have is the meer grace and love of God; The discriminating difference why Christ prayeth not for the world but his Disciples, and in them all beleevers, is not from any good or worth in them, but meerly from the meer gift of God.