CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 58: The Greatness of the Mercy of being kept sound in the Truth: And the Damnableness of Er…

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JOHN 17.11. Keep through thy own Name those whom thou hast given me.

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WE are now come to the last Interpretation, which is part of the complete sense here intended, in this phrase, [Greek or Hebrew], and that is, to take Name for that pure and sound Doctrine, whereby God in a saving manner is known. Thus Name is used at the 6th verse, I have manifested thy Name, which is explained by the word, they had kept. And then the Preposition [Greek or Hebrew], is taken properly, Keep in thy Name, in thy Truth and Word, which I have manifested to them. For there is a two-fold keeping of Gods Word, Obedientially, by conforming our lives to it; and Doctrinally, by preserving the truth of it; In this sense Timothy is exhorted to keep (2 Tim. 1.14.) the good thing committed to his trust, gold he hath received, he must look this be not debased by erroneous dross. Observe,

WE are now come to the last Interpretation, which is part of the compleat sense here intended, in this phrase, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and that is, to take Name for that pure and sound Doctrine, whereby God in a saving manner is known. Thus Name is used at the 6th verse, I have manifested thy Name, which is explained by the word, they had kept. And then the Preposition 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is taken properly, Keep in thy Name, in thy Truth and Word, which I have manifested to them. For there is a two-fold keeping of Gods Word, Obedientially, by conforming our lives to it; and Doctrinally, by preserving the truth of it; In this sense Timothy is exhorted to keep (2 Tim. 1.14.) the good thing committed to his trust, gold he hath received, he must look this be not debased by erroneous dross. Observe,

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON LIX. That it's a special Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein their Unity should be, And the Reasons of the Differences that are among them.

SERMON LIX. That it's a speciall Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein their Ʋnity should be, And the Reasons of the Differences that are among them.

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SERMON LIX. That it's a special Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein their Unity should be, And the Reasons of the Differences that are among them.

SERMON LIX. That it's a speciall Mercy for the Ministers of the Gospel to agree in one; Wherein their Ʋnity should be, And the Reasons of the Differences that are among them.