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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 88: The Heavenly man much improved by much considering that he is not of this world.
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.
JOH. 17.14. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
OUR Saviour had immediately before in the tenth Verse urged this Argument in his Prayer for his Disciples, and here we see within so little a space he repeateth it again.
OUR Saviour had immediatly before in the tenth Verse urged this Argument in his Praier for his Disciples, and here we see within so little a space he repeateth it again.
Though therefore we have handled this already, yet because it is repeated again, and it is well observed that those things which our Saviour did more then once say they have some notable Excellency, and deserve a second Consideration, according to that old Rule, Pulchra sunt bis dicenda; And in the Hebrew there is often a Gemination of the Word for the more Efficacy and Certainty; Because I say it's thus repeated by our Saviour who had infinite Treasures of Wisdom within him, who was the [Greek or Hebrew], and could not be straitened in words, Therefore let us also have a second improving of it: You see the Argument that it is twice repeated, They are not of the world, God is entreated to preserve them because they are not of the world even as Christ is not.
Though therefore we have handled this already, yet because it is repeated again, and it is well observed that those things which our Saviour did more then once say they have some notable Excellency, and deserve a second Consideration, according to that old Rule, Pulchra sunt bis dicenda; And in the Hebrew there is often a Gemination of the Word for the more Efficacy and Certainty; Because I say it's thus repeated by our Saviour who had infinite Treasures of Wisedom within him, who was the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and could not be streightned in words, Therefore let us also have a second improving of it: You see the Argument that it is twice repeated, They are not of the world, God is entreated to preserve them because they are not of the world even as Christ is not.