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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.
1. To pray for the people,
2. To make a Sacrifice for them: Now our Saviour in this Chapter doth both, he prayeth, and offereth up himself a Sacrifice for his people.
2. To make a Sacrifice for them: Now our Saviour in this Chapter doth both, he praieth, and offereth up himself a Sacrifice for his people.
So that in the words we are to consider, The Person, The Action, The object matter, The Finis cui, and the Finis cujus:
The Person, I sanctify my self, I, By this we see partly the Deity of Christ, for none but God can say, he sanctifieth himself that others may be sanctified; and then this denoteth his willingness and readiness, Christ did readily offer up himself to all that misery and shame for our sakes.
The Person, I sanctifie my self, I, By this we see partly the Deity of Christ, for none but God can say, he sanctifieth himself that others may be sanctified; and then this denoteth his willingnesse and readinesse, Christ did readily offer up himself to all that misery and shame for our sakes.