A30241:1951
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.
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, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have delivered them, so that Christ herein doth faithfully discharge his duty, he did not neglect it. And
2. [Greek or Hebrew], Given, or delivered them; which implieth, that the Apostles ⟨p. 427⟩themselves could never by their own strength, have found out this heavenly Doctrine. There must be a revelation of •t from above, Christ must come from the bosom of the Father to give it unto them: They themselves could not have invented it; No, though in stead of illiterate Fishermen, they had been the Grandees of knowledge, the Platoes and Aristotles of the world.
2. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Given, or delivered them; which implieth, that the Apostles ⟨p. 427⟩themselves could never by their own strength, have found out this heavenly Doctrine. There must be a revelation of •t from above, Christ must come from the bosome of the Father to give it unto them: They themselves could not have invented it; No, though in stead of illiterate Fishermen, they had been the Grandees of knowledge, the Platoes and Aristotles of the world.