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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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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.
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 corporall 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.
In this reason we may take notice 1. Of the Disciples mercy vouchsafed to them, they were kept, this implieth their own insufficiency and inability.
2. The efficient cause of this, I have kept them; wherein also is implied his fidelity and diligence in that trust he took upon him as a Mediator.
2. The efficient cause of this, I have kept them; wherein also is implied his fidelity and diligence in that trust he took upon him as a Mediatour.