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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.
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 therefore return again from this Digression to the Subject in hand, which is to take notice of the great Usefulness and Excellency of the matter contained in this Prayer of Christs. Luther did justly call John the Evangelist for this Book, Malleus Pelagianorum, the hammer of Pelagians, we may add also of Socinians and Arians. Hence Sixtus Senensis speaketh of some Heretics called Alogi (a name that Epiphanius did justly put upon them) because they rejected this Gospel of John, and could not endure this [Greek or Hebrew], the Word, so often mentioned by him; What is thus said of the whole Gospel, may also be applied to this Prayer. For
I therefore return again from this Digression to the Subject in hand, which is to take notice of the great Usefulness and Excellency of the matter contained in this Prayer of Christs. Luther did justly call John the Evangelist for this Book, Malleus Pelagianorum, the hammer of Pelagians, we may adde also of Socinians and Arians. Hence Sixtus Senensis speaketh of some Heretiques called Alogi (a name that Epiphanius did justly put upon them) because they rejected this Gospel of John, and could not endure this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Word, so often mentioned by him; What is thus said of the whole Gospel, may also be applied to this Prayer. For
First, Here is the System, as it were, of most exact and pure Divinity, especially the Socinian and Arminian Errors are most powerfully and evidently profligated by it; Possevine chargeth it under his head of Atheism upon the Heretics, that Luther should say, There was no other Gospel but that of John, as if the Books of the other Evangelists did not deserve that Name; but till I can find that expression in Luther, I shall not be solicitous for an answer; This is certain, that this very Chapter I am treating of, is enough to put to flight and conquer the Armies of the chiefest Heretics; there being scarce any Doctrine of weight in Religion, which may not from hence be strongly confirmed. Chrysostom maketh this Chapter [Greek or Hebrew] not [Greek or Hebrew], a Sermon, not a Prayer, but it may have this instructing matter in it, though poured out prayer-wise.