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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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2. This Prayer of Christ is always heard; We many times pray, and God doth deny us, because as the Apostle James saith Chapt. 4. vers. 4. We ask amiss, or we ask not in Faith; Now Christ had every thing concurrent that might make his Prayer successful: Therefore John 11.42. Christ there professeth God the Father heard him always: In that History many things are remarkable.
2. This Prayer of Christ is alwaies heard; We many times pray, and God doth deny us, because as the Apostle James saith Chapt. 4. vers. 4. We ask amisse, or we ask not in Faith; Now Christ had every thing concurrent that might make his Prayer successefull: Therefore John 11.42. Christ there professeth God the Father heard him alwaies: In that History many things are remarkable.
For 1. In the raising of Lazarus though he could have done it by an immediate Word, yet he wept, and was sorely troubled; yea, he groaned twice, which were not simply groans of his Body in a natural way, but such as were accompanied with Prayer; Therefore he addeth, I know that thou hearest me always; Though we do not read of any Prayer of Christs at that same time, yet the groans and the desires of his Heart, they were Prayer.
For 1. In the raising of Lazarus though he could have done it by an immediate Word, yet he wept, and was sorely troubled; yea, he groaned twice, which were not simply groans of his Body in a natural way, but such as were accompanied with Praier; Therefore he addeth, I know that thou hearest me alwaies; Though we do not reade of any Praier of Christs at that same time, yet the groans and the desires of his Heart, they were Praier.