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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.
Sermon 48: The Deity of Jesus Christ cleared and defended against the Socinians.
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.
These words are an Argument to prove that though the Apostles, and in them all believers were the Fathers, yet the Son was not excluded from a propriety in them; Therefore to put more force in the Argument he presseth the sameness or Identity of Nature, and agreement with one another, as if he should have said, Let not any prayer put up in their behalf be rejected, for they are fit Subjects both for me to pray for and thou to hear, we both have an Interest in them; We must deny our own if we deny them, This is the sense of the words, and in them we may observe, 1. The argumentative particle. 2. The argument it self.
THese words are an Argument to prove that though the Apostles, and in them all beleevers were the Fathers, yet the Son was not excluded from a propriety in them; Therefore to put more force in the Argument he presseth the samenesse or Identity of Nature, and ageeement with one another, as if he should have said, Let not any praier put up in their behalf be rejected, for they are fit Subjects both for me to pray for and thou to hear, we both have an Interest in them; We must deny our own if we deny them, This is the sence of the words, and in them we may observe, 1. The argumentative particle. 2. The argument it self.
The argumentative particle in the word [Greek or Hebrew], which is not conjunctive but ratiocinative, It's not so well translated and as for, so [Greek or Hebrew] is often used for [Greek or Hebrew] in the Scripture, Even as the Hebrew is sometimes conjunctive and sometime a Note of Inference, as Give help from trouble and Vain is the help of man, Psa. 60.11. that is for; We have sinned and thou art angry, i. e. for that, &c. So here, They are thine, for all mine is thine:
The argumentative particle in'the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is not conjunctive but ratiocinative, It's not so well translated and as for, so 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is often used for in the Scripture, Even as the Hebrew is sometimes conjunctive and sometime a Note of Inference, as Give help from trouble and Vain is the help of man,