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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.
WE are now come to the end of Christs Sanctification, which is two-fold, the finis cui, and cujus. We shall put them both together, for so they are conjoined in the following clause, That they might be sanctified through the Truth.
WE are now come to the end of Christs Sanctification, which is two-fold, the finis cui, and cujus. We shall put them both together, for so they are conjoyned in the following clause, That they might be sanctified through the Truth.
Wherein you have, 1. The final Cause. 2. The Manner of accomplishing it.
The final Cause, That they might be sanctified: and from this the Socinian would argue, That Sanctification in the former clause, was not meant of an oblation by way of Sacrifice, because the same word is applied to the Apostles in the Text, and they were not to be sacrificed for us.
To answer this: First, Some Expositors do expound it of their offering up of themselves by Martyrdom to confirm the truth, for Paul professeth his willingness herein, using the word [Greek or Hebrew],