A30241:1289
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.
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.
I answer. This Apostle (as is observed by the Learned) of all doth most abound with Hebraisms, and with them it's ordinary to use a participle of the present tense for the future, as might be showed; And besides our Saviour was very shortly to go out of the world by his sufferings; and it's ordinary with all to speak of a thing as done which is immediately to be done, as Heb. 11. Abraham is said by faith to offer up his Son Isaac, when yet he did not offer him up, but was prepared for to do it immediately.
I answer. This Apostle (as is observed by the Learned) of all doth most abound with Hebraisms, and with them it's ordinary to use a participle of the present tense for the future, as might be shewed; And besides our Saviour was very shortly to go out of the world by his sufferings; and it's ordinary with all to speak of a thing as done which is immediately to be done, as Heb. 11. Abraham is said by faith to offer up his Son Isaac, when yet he did not offer him up, but was prepared for to do it immediately.
Lastly, Observe the difference between being in the world and of the world; When our Saviour saith, I am no more in the world, it supposeth he had been in it, but now he never was of the world, as he saith, v. 16. For to be of the world is to partake of the wickedness and ungodliness which reigneth there, The whole world lieth in wickedness; And therefore Christ could not be of the world in this sense; For the Apostles after their call, neither any converted persons are thus of the world, though they be in it locally.
Lastly, Observe the difference between being in the world and of the world; When our Saviour saith, I am no more in the world, it supposeth he had been in it, but now he never was of the world, as he saith, v. 16. For to be of the world is to partake of the wickednesse and ungodlinesse which reigneth there, The whole world lieth in wickednesse; And therefore Christ could not be of the world in this sence; For the Apostles after their call, neither any converted persons are thus of the world, though they be in it locally.