A30241:1903
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.
The Benefit it self described, and the Manner of possessing of it.
The Benefit it self is, My Joy.
This may be understood Actively and Passively; Actively, for that joy which Christ might take from his Disciples, being preserved in purity of Doctrine and Unity amongst themselves. Thus some understand it, and parallel a like place, Phil. 2.2· where Paul bids them fulfil his joy, which was the joy he would take by seeing their happy agreement; but because it's said in the Text, That this joy may be fulfilled in the Disciples themselves. Therefore it is more consonant to understand it passively of that joy, which the Disciples took in him, and the benefits flowing from him: So that it may be called Christs joy, both effectively, because he is the Author and giver of it; as also objectively, because it is in him, in divine and holy things, not in the world much less in the pleasures of sin.
This may be understood Actively and Passively; Actively, for that joy which Christ might take from his Disciples, being preserved in purity of Doctrine and Unity amongst themselves. Thus some understand it, and parallel a like place, Phil. 2.2· where Paul bids them fulfill his joy, which was the joy he would take by seeing their happy agreement; but because it's said in the Text, That this joy may be fulfilled in the Disciples themselves. Therefore it is more consonant to understand it passively of that joy, which the Disciples took in him, and the benefits flowing from him: So that it may be called Christs joy, both effectively, because he is the Authour and giver of it; as also objectively, because it is in him, in divine and holy things, not in the world much lesse in the pleasures of sin.