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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.
3. The Via per quam, the way by which, and that is implied by his Death and Sufferings: In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew], in other places it is [Greek or Hebrew], and once that is used absolutely, The Son of man goeth, &c. Mat. 26.24. That is he dieth, here there is contained much comfort to his Disciples, that neither Christs Enemies or Death did overcome him, but by Death he goeth to his Father, and that for the great benefit and advantage of all true Believers.
3. The Via per quam, the way by which, and that is implied by his Death and Sufferings: In the Greek it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in other places it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and once that is used absolutely, The Sonne of man goeth, &c. Mat. 26.24. That is he dieth, here there is contained much comfort to his Disciples, that neither Christs Enemies or Death did overcome him, but by Death he goeth to his Father, and that for the great benefit and advantage of all true Believers.
Obs. That Christ by Death went to his Father;1 Here is much practical Divinity in this Point; We see our Saviour again and again instructed his Disciples about his; He knew how much his Sufferings and Death would amaze them and shake their Faith, he knew what a false principle they were possessed with, viz, that he would erect a temporal Glorious Kingdom; Therefore that they might not be undone by these thoughts, he tells them often both of his death, and whither by that he was to go, Joh. 14.3. Our Saviour comforts their troubled hearts with this, that he was going to the Father, and that not merely for his own glory and honour, but also for their good; Even as Joseph was advanced in Pharaohs Court as well for the good of his Father and his brethren as for his own glory, and by the way observe that our Saviour tells them, That they knew whither he went and the way, yet Thomas in the name of the rest saith, Lord, we know not whither thou goest: Now you may ask, Either Christ who is Truth it self spake not right, or Thomas, The