CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

First, The Cause of their hatred in the world, in those words, I have given them thy Word, where by the antecedent is necessarily meant the consequent, for Christs giving or preaching the Word of God, unless they received and obeyed it, was not enough to procure hatred; Therefore they are both expressed vers. 8. Christs giving them, and their receiving of the Word. For the Pharisees, and many enemies to Christ, who were of the world, and the greatest part of those that did oppose, did yet hear. The Gospel was tendered to them, though they made themselves unworthy thereof. And thus when the Orthodox say, That the pure preaching of the Word, is a note of the Church: By that they understand also a visible, external accepting of it, otherwise the Word may be preached to Barbarians and Heathen, who may hear, but scorn and reject the Gospel, and therefore cannot be a Church.

First, The Cause of their hatred in the world, in those words, I have given them thy Word, where by the antecedent is necessarily meant the consequent, for Christs giving or preaching the Word of God, unlesse they received and obeyed it, was not enough to procure hatred; Therefore they are both expressed vers. 8. Christs giving them, and their receiving of the Word. For the Pharisees, and many enemies to Christ, who were of the world, and the greatest part of those that did oppose, did yet hear. The Gospel was tendered to them, though they made themselves unworthy thereof. And thus when the Orthodox say, That the pure preaching of the Word, is a note of the Church: By that they understand also a visible, external accepting of it, otherwise the Word may be preached to Barbarians and Heathen, who may hear, but scorn and reject the Gospel, and therefore cannot be a Church.

This then being supposed, we see the cause of the Apostles miseries and oppositions in the world, not because they were thieves, robbers, or seditious persons. But because they did embrace the Doctrine of Christ, all the words of this reason are emphatical, [Greek or Hebrew], I have delivered them, so that Christ herein doth faithfully discharge his duty, he did not neglect it. And

This then being supposed, we see the cause of the Apostles miseries and oppositions in the world, not because they were thieves, robbers, or seditious persons. But because they did imbrace the Doctrine of Christ, all the words of this reason are emphatical, , I have delivered them, so that Christ herein doth faithfully discharge his duty, he did not neglect it. And