CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

All these particulars contain solid and substantial Divinity, both Doctrinal and Practical. They will serve to confute false Doctrines, and reprove wicked conversations. And

First, Let us consider the fidelity and diligence Christ useth, expressed in that word, I have kept them. This is a new and different Greek word from the former, which was [Greek or Hebrew], but here it is [Greek or Hebrew], which the Septuagint make often to answer the Hebrew word Shamar, which signifieth to keep with all diligence and circumspection. In the New Testament, it's many times used of a corporal violent detaining in prison, as [Greek or Hebrew] is, Act 12.4. Act. 23.35. Hence [Greek or Hebrew] is often for a prison, Act. 16.23, 24, 27, 37, 40. and [Greek or Hebrew] is to hale to prison, Act 22.19. but when it's applied in a spiritual sense, it signifieth a diligent observing of a command, or more frequently, a careful preserving of our selves from sin, as Luke 12.15 1 John 5.21. And hence comes the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], Matth. 23.5. They made broad their phylacteries, called so, because by them they were warned to take heed of sin: But in the Text it's used for protection and preservation to everlasting happiness, as John 12.25. only we ⟨p. 344⟩may observe the use of it in three places very fit to our matter in hand.

First, Let us consider the fidelity and diligence Christ useth, expressed in that word, I have kept them. This is a new and different Greek word from the former, which was , but here it is , which the Septuagint make often to answer the Hebrew word Shamar, which signifieth to keep with all diligence and circumspection. In the New Testament, it's many times used of a corporal violent detaining in prison, as is, Act 12.4.