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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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3. By this expression, saith Austin upon the place, we must not understand, as if there were a vicissitude in the Fathers and Sons keeping of us; as if the Son had kept them a while, excluding the Father; and now the Father was to keep them, excluding the Son; but the Father kept them even while Christ kept them; and Christ will keep them after his departure, while the Father keeps them, but not in the same manner; before there was a corporal visible keeping, but now spiritual.
3. By this expression, saith Austin upon the place, we must not understand, as if there were a vicissitude in the Fathers and Sons keeping of us; as if the Son had kept them a while, excluding the Father; and now the Father was to keep them, excluding the Sonne; but the Father kept them even while Christ kept them; and Christ will keep them after his departure, while the Father keeps them, but not in the same manner; before there was a corporal visible keeping, but now spiritual.
4. We are to avoid the Socinian reason given, why Christ speaks thus in the Text: It is (saith he) because Christ had not yet obtained that power and sovereignty to keep them after an invisible manner; for they say, Christ had not that Divine power and authority till it was given him after his resurrection, then God gave him the universal dominion over all, (say they.) But our Saviour had sufficiently before showed, that what the Father did, he also did.
4. We are to avoid the Socinian reason given, why Christ speaks thus in the Text: It is (saith he) because Christ had not yet obtained that power and soveraignty to keep them after an invisible manner; for they say, Christ had not that Divine power and authority till it was given him after his resurrection, then God gave him the universall dominion over all, (say they.) But our Saviour had sufficiently before shewed, that what the Father did, he also did.