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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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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.
4. There is his wisdom, for though there be power and love, yet through imprudence we see amongst men it often miscarrieth, but now in Christ are hid the treasures of all wisdom; And Isa. 9. he is called the Counsellor, as having wisdom to direct, and power to deliver in all the sad Trials they are plunged into; He is called often the wisdom of the Father; Now then put all these together, Omnipotent Power, unsearchable Wisdom, Infinite Love and Immutable Fidelity, and you must conclude that the godly mans safety is firmer then Mount Zion or the Earth that God hath established, for they may be removed, but these cannot be no more then Christ, Christ and they will stand or fall together.
4. There is his wisedom, for though there be power and love, yet through imprudence we see amongst men it often miscarrieth, but now in Christ are hid the treasures of all wisedom; And Isa. 9. he is called the Counsellor, as having wisedom to direct, and power to deliver in all the sad Trials they are plunged into; He is called often the wisedom of the Father; Now then put all these together, Omnipotent Power, unsearchable Wisedom, Infinite Love and Immutable Fidelity, and you must conclude that the godly mans safety is firmer then Mount Zion or the Earth that God hath established, for they may be removed, but these cannot be no more then Christ, Christ and they will stand or fall together.
1And lastly, (because more is to be said to this in the words following) this implieth a strong tie and obligation upon Christ to keep them, for they are given him as Sheep to the Shepherd, and as Jacob was to answer for every torn or killed one, so must Christ; They are given him to keep, as Benjamin was to his Brethren; Look (saith Jacob) you see not my face unless you bring him safe ▪ Insomuch that if Christ should not preserve those that are given him, all the glory of his Mediatorship will fall to the ground, You see how he declareth his diligence, None is lost, For if he had lost some of them, then had not Christ gone through with the work of Redemption, and so could not expect the glory he prayed for, neither could he have said, I have finished the work thou hast given me, yea, it would have behoved him to come and die again, to be crucified again, if he had not by one Oblation once perfected for ever the Godly,