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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 106: Of both the Moving Cause and Effects of Election and of Christs Prayer and Death; Again…
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 come to a Second Observation from the circumstance of the future tense, Who shall believe in me; For (as was intimated) there may be a twofold sense of these words.
WE come to a Second Observation from the circumstance of the future tense, Who shall beleeve in me; For (as was intimated) there may be a twofold sence of these words.
1. That this future Faith is mentioned as an effect and fruit of being given to Christ, as also of Christs Prayer and Death for them, So that he doth not only pray for them which shall believe, but also that they may believe, and in this sense the Orthodox interpret it.
1. That this future Faith is mentioned as an effect and fruit of being given to Christ, as also of Christs Prayer and Death for them, So that he doth not only pray for them which shall beleeve, but also that they may beleeve, and in this sense the Orthodox interpret it.
Or 2. It may be interpreted as if Faith were here supposed as a condition on our part, antecedaneous both to Gods Election, and also Christs Intercession and death, So that the sense should be, These were given to Christ, and Christ he prayed and died for them, because it was foreseen by God, that such would believe upon the means of grace offered, and others not; In this sense Meisner a Lutheran urgeth it, and thus all Arminians and others must take it, who hold that we were Elected from a foresight of our Faith and perseverance therein.
Or 2. It may be interpreted as if Faith were here supposed as a condition on our part, antecedaneous both to Gods Election, and also Christs Intercession and death, So that the sence should be, These were given to Christ, and Christ he praied and died for them, because it was foreseen by God, that such would beleeve upon the means of grace offered, and others not; In this sence Meisner a Lutheran urgeth it, and thus all Arminians and others must take it, who hold that we were Elected from a foresight of our Faith and perseverance therein.