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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.
Fourthly, This phrase doth imply the safety that the people of God are in, 1For though in respect of the world and their Corruptions, they may say with Jehoshaphat, A great Army is against us and we know not what to do, or they may be afraid as the man Elisha led into the midst of the Enemies Camp, yet for all this they are safe, for there is a fourfold cord that holds in them, which cannot easily be broken; There is first Christs power which is omnipotent, the same with the Fathers power, Joh. 10. I and my Father are one; None can take them ⟨p. 340⟩out of Christs hands, because none can take them out of the Fathers hand; Therefore Col. 3. their life is said to be hid with Christ in God: And it is a crown laid up in heaven; Now what men or devils can break into Heaven? Who can rob and steal from thence? if there be a stronger then God, more powerful then God, then doubt of thy preservation but else not.
Fourthly, This phrase doth imply the safety that the people of God are in, 1For though in respect of the world and their Corruptions, they may say with Iehosaphat, A great Army is against us and we know not what to do, or they may be afraid as the man Elisha led into the midst of the Enemies Camp, yet for al this they are safe, for there is a fourfold cord that holds in them, which cannot easily be broken; There is first Christs power which is omnipotent, the same with the Fathers power, Ioh. 10. I and my Father are one; None can take them ⟨p. 340⟩out of Christs hands, because none can take them out of the Fathers hand; Therefore Col. 3. their life is said to be hid with Christ in God: And it is a crown laid up in heaven; Now what men or devils can break into Heaven? Who can rob and steal from thence? if there be a stronger then God, more powerful then God, then doubt of thy preservation but else not.