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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.
6. The Son and the Father have the same propriety in all the godly;1 Those that belong to the Father belong also to the Son, This was the occasion of this general Speech in the Text; The Apostles are thine, and all thine are mine; So that the Father doth not abdicate his right by the donation of them to Christ; ⟨p. 264⟩Hence Joh. 20.17. I go to my Father and your Father, by way of comfort putting us into some co-partnership with his propriety; Those then that are Christs Sheep they have also Gods mark upon them, They do belong to the Father by grace, and to the Son by merit and purchase, so that the Children of God are to proceed by degrees, to evidence their propriety in Christ, and then in the Father; For saith Christ, If ye had known me ye would have known my Father, Joh. 8.16.
- 16. The same propriety in all the godly.
Lastly, They have the same power and strength, and that in reference to the defence and preservation of his people, Joh. 10. None can pull them out of my Fathers hand, then he addeth, I and my Father are one, one as in nature so in that omnipotent power to govern and preserve his Children to everlasting happiness, so that this doctrine is not merely speculative but tends to much practical edification.
Lastly, They have the same power and strength, and that in reference to the defence and preservation of his people, Joh. 10. None can pull them out of my Fathers hand, then he addeth, I and my Father are one, one as in nature so in that omnipotent power to govern and preserve his Children to everlasting happinesse, so that this doctrine is not meerly speculative but tends to much practical edification.