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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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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.
3. The manner how, In thy Name; which mercy is illustrated from the circumstance of time, While I was with ••em. 2. Of place, while I was with them in the world. First of the circumstance of time and place, While I was with them in the world, he speaks, as if for the present he were not with them, but that is because his departure was immediately at hand. Now when our Saviour speaks in this manner, while I was with them, I kept them,
3. The manner how, In thy Name; which mercy is illustrated from the circumstance of time, While I was with ••em. 2. Of place, while I was with them in the world. First of the circumstance of time and place, While I was with them in the world, he speaks, as if for the present he were not with them, but that is because his departure was immediatly at hand. Now when our Saviour speaks in this manner, while I was with them, I kept them,
1. You must not think as if Christ by his bodily leaving of them, did also spiritually leave them; No, this would contradict that promise, Mat. 28. where Christ said, he would be with them to the end of the world: he did not change his presence, but the manner of his presence; it was before corporal and visible, now spiritual and invisible.