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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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In the first place Consider the Relation Christ is in, while praying thus for his disciples, and so we may consider him as a Governor, as a Pastor, or Master, who had a charge and trust over the Disciples, and this he administers with much Faithfulness, For being now corporally to leave them, it's not honours, greatness, and temporal advantages he prayeth for, but only the spiritual welfare ⟨p. 295⟩of their soul, viz. a preservation from the evil of the world, and a perseverance in good, so that here we have an admirable example for all Governors, all that have charge over any Inferiors: As Abimelech said to his people, What ye see me do, that do ye; So what we behold Christ doing, let all Trusters for others do the like, Let Magistrates, Ministers, Parents and Masters, see that it's the godliness and Souls good of their Inferiors, that they are to pursue above all other things.
In the first place Consider the Relation Christ is in, while praying thus for his disciples, and so we may consider him as a Governour, as a Pastor, or Master, who had a charge and trust over the Disciples, and this he administers with much Faithfulnesse, For being now corporally to leave them, it's not honours, greatnesse, and temporal advantages he praieth for, but only the spiritual welfare ⟨p. 295⟩of their soul, viz. a preservation from the evil of the world, and a perseverance in good, so that here we have an admirable example for all Governours, all that have charge over any Inferiours: As Abimelech said to his people, What ye see me do, that do ye; So what we behold Christ doing, let all Trusters for others do the like, Let Magistrates, Ministers, Parents and Masters, see that it's the godlinesse and Souls good of their Inferiours, that they are to pursue above all other things.
From whence observe,