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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 105: Of Christs Love and Care of every one of his before they had a being.
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Observ. That such is Christs care and love to his, that they are remembered in his prayer and death, even before they had a being, when thou couldst not pray for thy self, nor any else; yea from eternity Christs Mediatory love and purpose was set upon thee. In particular this truth is full of consolations, even as the Sea is of waters, to those that are members of Christ.
Observ. That such is Christs care and love to his, that they are remembred in his prayer and death, even before they had a being, when thou couldst not pray for thy self, nor any else; yea from eternity Christs Mediatory love and purpose was set upon thee. In particular this truth is full of consolations, even as the Sea is of waters, to those that are members of Christ.
Therefore to open this,
First, Consider that when Christ here prayeth for all believers, he doth not as we do. When we pray for the whole Church of God, or as some say, The Angels and Saints in Heaven pray, viz. in a general indistinct manner, not descending to every particular, individual person. No, but Christ in this prayer, being God as well as man, and so clothed with Omniscience, did in this prayer know and attend to every particular believer, that should in any age of the Church be born, as distinctly and nominally (as I may so say) as when he told Peter, I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: So that here is a great difference between Christs prayer for the universal Church, and ours. We cannot name the particular believers, that shall be in every age, but Christ did represent in this prayer every individual man, and had as distinct knowledge of all believers, as of the Apostles whom he knew man by man.
First, Consider that when Christ here prayeth for all believers, he doth not as we do. When we pray for the whole Church of God, or as some say, The Angels and Saints in Heaven pray, viz. in a general indistinct manner, not descending to every particular, individual person. No, but Christ in this prayer, being God as well as man, and so cloathed with Omnisciency, did in this prayer know and attend to every particular believer, that should in any age of the Church be born, as distinctly and nominally (as I may so say) as when he told Peter, I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: So that here is a great difference between Christs prayer for the universall Church, and ours. We cannot name the particular believers, that shall be in every age, but Christ did represent in this prayer every individual man, and had as distinct knowledge of all believers, as of the Apostles whom he knew man by man.