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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.
First, Because otherwise our Saviours Argument there mentioned would be insufficient; for thus Christ argueth, None can pluck my sheep out of my hands, because none can pluck them out of my Fathers hands: Why doth this follow? Because I and my Father are one. So then, if Christ and the Father had not one power, and so one Divine Nature, the Argument would not hold.
A second Reason is, Because the Jews did understand him in this sense, and therefore they took up stones to stone him; and mark the reason, vers. 33. Because thou being a man, makest thy self God. If our Saviour had meant no more, then Unity of Agreement with Gods will. The Jews knew that every godly man had the love of God in this sense written in his heart. Therefore they could not think that blasphemy. They did not think that David made himself a God, when he delighted in the Law of God, making his will to accord with Gods.
A second Reason is, Because the Jews did understand him in this sense, and therefore they took up stones to stone him; and mark the reason, vers. 33. Because thou being a man, makest thy self God. If our Saviour had meant no more, then Ʋnity of Agreement with Gods will. The Jews knew that every godly man had the love of God in this sense written in his heart. Therefore they could not think that blasphemy. They did not think that David made himself a God, when he delighted in the Law of God, making his will to accord with Gods.
Thirdly, Because our Saviour upon this accusation, doth not deny the thing, or charge them with falsehood, but further proveth it, Because he doth the works of the Father, therefore he bids them believe his works, if they will not believe him, which are to make them know that the Father is in him, and he in the Father; upon which words it's said again, vers. 39. They sought again to take him, implying, he had not corrected, but confirmed that more, which they called blasphemy.