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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.
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.
But let us explain this, for this truth is profitable unto us, seeing it was for us, that he was sent. And
First, Consider, that though the three Persons are equal in Nature and Dignity, ⟨p. 488⟩they are all God and infinitely blessed for evermore, yet the Scripture doth represent unto us an order in their operations ad extra to us-ward, especially in the work of our Redemption, one operation is appropriated to the Father, another to the Son, and another to the holy Ghost. To the Father is constantly applied the sending of Christ his Son into the world, as at the second verse of this Chapter, Gal. 4.4. In the fullness of time God sent forth his Son; and 1 John 4.9. it's the Father that sends him: So that the original of all our peace and salvation is the love of the Father.
First, Consider, that though the three Persons are equal in Nature and Dignity, ⟨p. 488⟩they are all God and infinitely blessed for evermore, yet the Scripture doth represent unto us an order in their operations ad extra to us-ward, especially in the work of our Redemption, one operation is appropriated to the Father, another to the Son, and another to the holy Ghost. To the Father is constantly applied the sending of Christ his Sonne into the world, as at the second verse of this Chapter, Gal. 4.4. In the fulness of time God sent forth his Son; and 1 John 4.9. it's the Father that sends him: So that the original of all our peace and salvation is the love of the Father.