A30241:1823
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.
2. These words are not spoken to take off the cause of perdition from Judas, and to lay it upon the Scripture or Gods prevision, but only (as you heard) to prevent the offence, the Disciples might take; Therefore Calvin saith well, that the Scriptures mere prediction is not the cause of an Event; Neither did ⟨p. 388⟩Judas perish, because the Scripture said so; Indeed no predictions whether divine or humane, as Astronomical, political, &c. are the causes of any Event: Things are not therefore because foretold, but they are foretold because future; This is true of prediction or prevision merely as so, not including preordination in it.
2. These words are not spoken to take off the cause of perdition from Judas, and to lay it upon the Scripture or Gods prevision, but only (as you heard) to prevent the offence, the Disciples might take; Therefore Calvin saith well, that the Scriptures meer prediction is not the cause of an Event; Neither did ⟨p. 388⟩Judas perish, because the Scripture said so; Indeed no predictions whether divine or humane, as Astronomicall, politicall, &c. are the causes of any Event: Things are not therefore because foretold, but they are foretold because future; This is true of prediction or prevision meerly as so, not including preordination in it.
Hence 3. The particle [Greek or Hebrew] that is taken two ways in Scripture, sometimes denoting a cause, Sometimes an Event only, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], as the Learned instance in many places; Now here they make it to signify the Event only, that the sense amounts to thus much, when Judas had betrayed his Master, and perished in that wickedness, then were those places of Scripture fulfilled; The Scriptures did not force or compel him, but when he had accomplished his impieties, then was the Scripture fulfilled; Indeed Tolet makes it to be causal, and Maldonate causal, apparently but not really; Jansenius grants it may be causal, not in respect of Judas his sin but the end why God permitted all this.