A30241:1873
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.
Our Saviour having answered that great Objection, and offence about the perdition of Judas, he returneth again to his Disciples, for whom he was pouring out this part of his prayer. And
OUr Saviour having answered that great Objection, and offence about the perdition of Judas, he returneth again to his Disciples, for whom he was pouring out this part of his prayer. And
1. He repeateth that Argument he had used, vers. 11. Now I come to thee: Here is much efficacy in this, but I have already handled that fully. Only take notice, That some understand not this of his local motion, or ascension to the Father, but mental, as if his meaning was, by these petitions, I come to thee, according to that old saying, Oratio est ascensus mentis in Deum, but every eye seeth this improbable.
I therefore proceed, and in the words following you may observe, the description of Christs prayer at this time, and the end of it: His prayer is expressed in that word [Greek or Hebrew], with the circumstance of place, in the world, that is, in the ears of all; This prayer is not like that, when he went by himself and prayed so earnestly about the passing away of the Cup, which the Evangelist could never have related what it was, had not Christ revealed it. Some there are, that because the word is [Greek or Hebrew] in the original, have concluded, that therefore this was not mentioned by our Saviour, as a prayer; nor is it to be understood, but as a Sermon or Doctrinal Information. Thus because it's said, vers. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], he spake. Chrysostom saith, it's not [Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew], not a Prayer but a Sermon; and so Cajetan thinketh it to be an informatory discourse. But Christs gesture of lifting up his eyes to heaven, and his express words, calling it a prayer, vers. 9, 15, 20. do clearly confute that. Neither are [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] opposite, but subordinate. A prayer that is public may be doctrinally edifying the Auditor; and therefore both [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] is used of Zachariah's prayer, or eucharistical song,