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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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Sermon 103: In what respects the Benefits of Christs Mediation extend to all Believers alike, and i…
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First, That Christ being God as well as man, 1and so a Mediator in both Natures, did know all those who were given unto him by the Father, he knew the charge and trust that was committed unto him: Even all that have been, or shall be, and therefore as the High-priest had the names of the twelve Tribes on his breastplate; Thus our Mediator resembleth him, for he hath the name of every one, he is the good Shepherd, who as he did lay down his life for, so also he must necessarily know every one of them. This then is to be taken notice of, that the Father gave such a number of persons, neither more nor less unto Christ, to purchase their salvation; and every one of these he did exactly know, for to him as God, all things past and to come are as present. And therefore though these in the Text are to believe in the future, and so have no present being, yet they are here comprehended in Christs prayer; But of this truth more in the second Description, which is of the circumstance of time.
First, That Christ being God as well as man, 1and so a Mediatour in both Natures, did know all those who were given unto him by the Father, he knew the charge and trust that was committed unto him: Even all that have been, or shall be, and therefore as the High-priest had the names of the twelve Tribes on his breastplate; Thus our Mediatour resembleth him, for he hath the name of every one, he is the good Shepherd, who as he did lay down his life for, so also he must necessarily know every one of them. This then is to be taken notice of, that the Father gave such a number of persons, neither more nor lesse unto Christ, to purchase their salvation; and every one of these he did exactly know, for to him as God, all things past and to come are as present. And therefore though these in the Text are to believe in the future, and so have no present being, yet they are here comprehended in Christs prayer; But of this truth more in the second Description, which is of the circumstance of time.
- 1In what respects Christ did as much for one believer as another.