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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
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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. 17.20. Neither pray I for these alone, &c.
Hitherto our Saviour hath prayed for his Apostles as they were Apostles; But because many things in his Petition for them did also concern all Believers, and lest it should be thought that none but the Apostles were the Object of his Prayer, he therefore comes to a third part in his Petition, which relates to the Catholic Church even the whole number of those who in time by Gods Spirit shall be enabled to believe, Christ doth represent in his Prayer to God the weakest believer as well as the most Eminent Apostle; So that here begins the third principal part of this Chapter.
HItherto our Saviour hath praied for his Apostles as they were Apostles; But because many things in his Petition for them did a•so concern all Beleevers, and lest it should be thought that none but the Apostles were the Object of his Praier, he therefore comes to a third part in his Petition, which relates to the Catholique Church even the whole number of those who in time by Gods Spirit shall be enabled to beleeve, Christ doth represent in his Praier to God the weakest beleever as well as the most Eminent Apostle; So that here begins the third principall part of this Chapter.
Now in this Context we may observe, 1. The Object of Christs Prayer. 2. The Final Cause of it. 3. The Reasons enforcing it.
Now in this Context we may observe, 1. The Object of Christs Praier. 2. The Final Cause of it. 3. The Reasons enforcing it.