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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.
Sermon 105: Of Christs Love and Care of every one of his before they had a being.
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.
WE have heard our Saviour doth in this verse pass from the Apostles to all believers; and it is Transitio perfecta, as Rhetoricians call it, for he mentioneth them he prayed for, and so proceeds to others.
WE have heard our Saviour doth in this verse passe from the Apostles to all believers; and it is Transitio perfecta, as Rhetoricians call it, for he mentioneth them he prayed for, and so proceeds to others.
We are in order come to the object of this enlarged prayer, and therein is considerable the circumstance of time, who shall believe, [Greek or Hebrew], where [Greek or Hebrew] is for [Greek or Hebrew], as before, and [Greek or Hebrew] for [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew]. It's true, some Copies, which Grotius also followeth, read it [Greek or Hebrew] in the present tense, for those that do believe, yet because it is most universally received in the future tense, and our Bibles go that way, I do adhere unto that, only here is the doubt, which Austin also of old made, why he prayeth only for them, who shall believe, for there were many at that time, besides the Apostles, as Nathanael, Joseph of Arimathea, the godly Maries, and others who did believe, were they then excluded from Christs prayer?
We are in order come to the object of this enlarged prayer, and therein is considerable the circumstance of time, who shall believe, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, where 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as before, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. It's true, some Copies, which Grotius also followeth, reade it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the present tense, for those that do believe, yet because it is most universally received in the future tense, and our Bibles go that way, I do adhere unto that, onely here is the doubt, which Austin also of old made, why he prayeth onely for them, who shall believe, for there were many at that time, besides the Apostles, as Nathanael, Joseph of Arimathea, the godly Maries, and others who did believe, were they then excluded from Christs prayer?