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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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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, 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.
The words thus explained, Consider the efficacy of Christs argument, I pray for these, and commend them to thy care and protection, because I am going out of the world; I shall not be corporally present with them, I was a comfort to them, and preserver of them, but now I commend them to thy hands; Thus we see the admirable care and love Christ showed to his Disciples, he seems to be more mindful of them then his own self; All his thoughts about his own sufferings did not so affect him, but that still he could remember his own Disciples, that it may go well with them.
The words thus explained, Consider the efficacy of Christs argument, I pray for these, and commend them to thy care and protection, because I am going out of the world; I shall not be corporally present with them, I was a comfort to them, and preserver of them, but now I commend them to thy hands; Thus we see the admirable care and love Christ shewed to his Disciples, he seems to be more mindeful of them then his own self; All his thoughts about his own sufferings did not so affect him, but that still he could remember his own Disciples, that it may go well with them.