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

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.

3. I have given them, [Greek or Hebrew]; He that is the true [Greek or Hebrew], the Word of God, doth deliver Gods Word, and he saith not mine, but thine, partly, because Christ in his mediatory administration referreth all to God, to the Father, My Doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me, and I come to do my Fathers will; and partly, hereby to engage God the Father more, for being it was because of his Word, and in reference to him, the more was he to preserve them. From the words explained observe,

3. I have given them, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; He that is the true 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Word of God, doth deliver Gods Word, and he saith not mine, but thine, partly, because Christ in his mediatory administration referreth all to God, to the Father, My Doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me, and I come to do my Fathers will; and partly, hereby to engage God the Father more, for being it was because of his Word, and in reference to him, the more was he to preserve them. From the words explained observe,