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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. Because he is the Mediator and High Priest, and so poureth out his prayers in his own Name; If Christ should not be heard for himself, then he would need another Mediator for himself, and he must also pray in another's Name, which is highly derogatory unto his honour to imagine or think of.
1. Because he is the Mediatour and High Priest, and so powreth out his praiers in his own Name; If Christ should not be heard for himself, then he would need another Mediatour for himself, and he must also pray in anothers Name, which is highly derogatory unto his honour to imagine or think of.
2. His Prayer is meritorious as well as his death, and so in justice nothing can be denied him.
3. He is infinitely beloved of the Father, and so when he appeareth nothing can be denied him.
Lastly, He doth not absolutely pray for any thing but what is conformable to his Fathers Will, and if so be we, who are the Sons of God by Adoption only, are sure to speed and to prevail when we keep close unto that Rule, how much more then shall the Natural Son of God!