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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.
And 2. Actual donation to Christ in time, Those thou hast given me; This is often repeated by our Saviour, as being a main Argument why nothing should he denied them that were thus endeared both to Father and Son, and also the frequent Iteration of this might produce the more faith and confidence in the Disciples.
And 2. Actuall donation to Christ in time, Those thou hast given me; This is often repeated by our Saviour, as being a main Argument why nothing should he denied them that were thus indeared both to Father and Son, and also the frequent Iteration of this might produce the more faith and confidence in the Disciples.
3. This is amplified by the manner or instrumental cause how they are to be kept, Through thy own Name.
4. The End or Consequent of all this, That they may be one as Thou and I are one.
Of the Mercy prayed for Keep, and the Subject, Those thou hast given me in the first place; I shall not enlarge any thing more upon this Description; Neither is there any difficulty in the words, only [Greek or Hebrew] is rendered by some serva, and they take it properly, for those were said to be servari who were taken in war, and so the Conqueror had full power over them to put them to death, but of his clemency he saved them, and thereupon were called servi, but the Greek word hath no such allusion; Only there is a twofold keeping external and temporal from the violence and rage of wicked men in respect of their bodies and lives because the world hates them: And 2. Spiritual and internal in grace and holiness, and this he doth principally pray for, as appeareth by the matter instanced in; Keep them in their outward condition that they be not destroyed, keep them in their spiritual condition that they lose not their faith or other graces; Keep them in bono that they be not undone deficiendo; Keep them a malo that it hurt them not Inficiendo; If they do sin, keep them reficiendo by repairing and raising them