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

2. The Property of this Life, it's Eternal; This natural life in the midst of the joys that may accompany it, hath this bridle and check; It's but for a short uncertain time.

2. The Property of this Life, it's Eternall; This naturall life in the midst of the joys that may accompany it, hath this bridle and check; It's but for a short uncertain time.

In the next place you have the manner of obtaining it, Its given; There is no merit, no antecedent worth but it's given. O this is the benefit.

The Subject who is to partake of this gift, is limited and restrained by this qualification, To as many as the Father hath given him; So we translate it, regarding the sense, otherwise if it should verbatim according to the Greek, it would be hardly sense to an English ear, For thus it is, That every thing which thou hast given him, to them he should give Eternal Life; Neither indeed is it pure Grecism, but an Hebraism, where sometimes the Nominative case beginneth the sentence, and then the sense is so cast afterwards, that it quite loseth its Verb, as here, [Greek or Hebrew], There is also the Neuter gender for the Masculine; Or else it's used emphatically to show, that not so much totus homo as the torum hominis, the every thing of a godly man is given to Christ, not his soul but his body also; This phrase is several times used especially Joh. 6.37. where it is said, All that my Father giveth me cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out, and will raise him up again; Where that [Greek or Hebrew] every thing implieth body as well as soul, because it's said, he will raise him up; Now when the Father ⟨p. 51⟩