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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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JOHN 17.14. I have given them thy Word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world.
IN this 14th verse our Saviour urgeth a special and powerful reason, why God the Father should in a peculiar manner keep them, which was hinted, vers. 11. and that is, the worlds hatred of them: So that this Petition hath a great deal of equity and righteousness in it; They will be exposed to the malice of the world, and that for thy cause, because they have believed in thy Word. The world will be no preserver or conservator of them, therefore do thou keep them.
IN this 14th verse our Saviour urgeth a special and powerfull reason, why God the Father should in a peculiar manner keep them, which was hinted, vers. 11. and that is, the worlds hatred of them: So that this Petition hath a great deal of equity and righteousnesse in it; They will be exposed to the malice of the world, and that for thy cause, because they have believed in thy Word. The world will be no preserver or conservator of them, therefore do thou keep them.
In the words therefore we have, 1. The Argument of the Petition, The world hateth them. 2: The Causes of this, which are two-fold,