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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.
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. Psa. 2.7. And his out-goings are said to be of old, Mic. 5.1. from the days of Eternity: So that Christ hath these things of the Father by nature, even as the Sun beams had the light of the Sun, as soon as ever there was a Sun though there be a great dissimilitude in this comparison; The Son then is not of the Father as the world was by a voluntary Creation but by a natural generation.
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. Psa. 2.7. And his out-goings are said to be of old, Mic. 5.1. from the daies of Eternity: So that Christ hath these things of the Father by nature, even as the Sun beams had the light of the Sun, as soon as ever there was a Sun though there be a great dissimilitude in this comparison; The Son then is not of the Father as the world was by a voluntary Creation but by a natural generation.
- 11. By eternal generation.