A30241:2219
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.
SERMON XCI. Of the Causes of Sanctification, and in particular of Gods Word as the Instrumental Cause.
SERMON XCI. Of the Causes of Sanctification, and in particular of Gods Word as the Instrumentall Cause.
JOHN 17.17. Sanctify them by thy truth, thy Word is Truth.
JOHN 17.17. Sanctifie them by thy truth, thy Word is Truth.
WE are now come to the Manner, or rather the Instrumental Cause of our Sanctification, and that is Truth, Sanctify them by thy truth. Some understand this [Greek or Hebrew] for as much as [Greek or Hebrew], truly, sincerely; and so those that limit this Sanctification to their Ministerial Separation for to preach the Word of God, make it an opposition to Legal Customs. For whereas the Priests of the Old Testament, being to enter into the Sanctuary, did not only first wash their hands and their feet, but put on glorious Garments. Thus (say they) Christ prayed that those Apostles, whom he was commissionating to preach the Gospel over the whole world, might be, though not externally sanctified, yet internally, by a more plentiful and copious enjoyment of the holy Ghost. But this is too much restrictive: