A30241:1765
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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Those that affirm are many; Those that ⟨p. 375⟩deny are also many. Raynardus the Jesuit (Lib. cui Titulus vitae optimae finis pessimus) at large quoteth the Authors of both sides: Some make it a problem, and therefore condemn Prateolus as too rigid, who noteth those with heresy, that deny his communicating with the other Apostles in this Sacrament.
Those that affirm are many; Those that ⟨p. 375⟩deny are also many. Raynardus the Jesuite (Lib. cui Titulus vitae optimae finis pessimus) at large quoteth the Authors of both sides: Some make it a probleme, and therefore condemn Prateolus as too rigid, who noteth those with heresie, that deny his communicating with the other Apostles in this Sacrament.
In the next place, Though thus eminent, yet consider these things to debase him.
1. In all this eminency and profession of Christ, he was an hypocrite, he had no true love to Christ, nor saving faith, as John 6. where at the beginning of all, Christ said, One is a devil, the present tense is not to be neglected, and the text saith, Even then he did not believe, viz. in a saving manner: Oh what cause of fear and trembling is this! Who can hear of Judas that preacheth, that worketh miracles, that is often in duties with Christ, yet he is not sincere? and therefore you may observe, that our Saviour in all his Sermons and Parables, did press this as the sum of all, to look we build, upon a Rock, to see that we dig deep in our building, that we be good ground, receiving the seed in a deep and honest heart. No subject did our Saviour so much insist on as this, when yet we would think in those days, when Christs teaching and miracles were so visible, and outward encouragements to profess him, wholly wanting, that none should follow him, but upon sincere and upright grounds.