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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.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 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:
In the next place we have the argument it self, and that is from the homoousiall consideration of the Father and the Son, All mine are thine, and thine are mine, which words are not spoken quoad fruitionem only, or [Greek or Hebrew], but quoad essentiam, all that Wisdom, power, Majesty thou hast, I have, we have all in common: Therefore this place is very strong against the blasphemous Socinians, and used by the Ancients against the Arians; The Socinians have nothing to evade but only that our Saviour doth not speak of the Fathers Essence but of his dominion and propriety; The Apostles were the Fathers by propriety, and so they were Christs also; But this will not stand, for although we must grant that before; The Apostles were said to be the Fathers yet he proveth this by an Argument from the general to the particular; No wonder they are thine and mine, for all mine are thine, Note the Universality, all mine are thine, all thine are mine, If all then the Essence, Nature and Majesty of God, otherwise it was not all, and if Christ were a mere Creature he could not say thus, for although the former part every creature may say, all mine are thine, in respect of dominion and efficiency, because there