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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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Sermon 61: The great changes that even a Godly man is subject unto, in respect of the having and l…
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SERMON LXI. The great changes that even a Godly man is subject unto, in respect of the having and losing those Sensible supports, both outward and inward, which God at some times vouchsafeth to them: Also what those sensible Enjoyments are, and why God doth so change the conditions of his People.
JOH. 17.12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Name.
WE have dispatched the prayer Christ put up for his Disciples; We are now to consider other reasons and arguments he useth for his Petition. Our Saviour expressed many before the Petition, and some also after the Petition.
The words of the Text are brought in as a reason, why he prayed for them now so solemnly, and not before; because formerly he had kept them in a visible manner, by his corporal presence with them, but now the manner of his presence being shortly to be changed, he therefore commends them to God, as if he should have said, Holy Father, ever since they became my Disciples, I took a special charge of them; the world was against them, they could not keep themselves, and I came as a Mediator appointed by thee, to preserve them to eternal life, which trust I have faithfully discharged, and therefore seeing they have hitherto been kept, let them not perish at last.