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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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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.
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.
1In the next place consider how all that Christ hath is the Fathers, and so reciprocally,
- 1How all Christ hath is the Fathers.
11. By eternal generation, The Socinians would grant the Son hath many transcendent prerogatives, but not by eternal generation, but by a temporal donation; This cannot be so, because the Psalmist long before Christ was born said, This is my Son, this day have I begotten thee.