CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

That Christ though God, yet as man did pray unto the Father as other men: ¹This Point about Christs Praying is worthy of our knowledge and right understanding, For the Arians and Socinians did from hence argue, that Christ was not God, it being absurd they say for him to pray who could do what he pleased, even as it's absurd to say, that God can pray, seeing he is omnipotent, and hath no Superior; Yea, some of the Ancient Fathers have not spoken so soundly in this Point; Hilary makes it to be but a kind of holy simulation, that Christ ⟨p. 520⟩prayed, and generally it's made a reason why he prayed that he might give us an example; But although this be one subordinate end, yet there were other more principal ends.

That Christ though God, yet as man did pray unto the Father as other men: ¹This Point about Christs Praying is worthy of our knowledge and right understanding, For the Arians and Socinians did from hence argue, that Christ was not God, it being absurd they say for him to pray who could do what he pleased, even as it's absurd to say, that God can pray, seeing he is omnipotent, and hath no Superiour; Yea, some of the Ancient Fathers have not spoken so soundly in this Point; Hilary makes it to be but a kinde of holy simulation, that Christ ⟨p. 520⟩praied, and generally it's made a reason why he praied that he might give us an example; But although this be one subordinate end, yet there were other more principal ends.

1. 1Doct. That Christ though God, yet as man did pray unto the Father.

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