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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 CXXIV. That Jesus Christ though God Co-equal with the Father, had many things given him by the Father; And how that can be?
SERMON CXXIV. That Jesus Christ though God Co-equall with the Father, had many things given him by the Father; And how that can be?
JOH. 17.22. And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.
WE have treated of the nature of that glory which Christ giveth to all believers: The next considerable is the description of the manner and way how Christ comes to have this glory, and that is said to be by way of gift, The glory which thou gavest me, Now this seemeth very hard to understand how Christ being God could receive any thing, for as God can have nothing given him, so it should seem Christ neither could have any thing given him, insomuch that this place with many others of the like fence is brought by the Socinians as an unanswerable Argument, that Christ was not truly and essentially God, for they heap up many places of Scripture where all that Christ hath is said to be given him, and from hence conclude he cannot be God; But the weakness of this will appear in further discovery of this Truth, which that it may be more clearly understood, Observe,
WE have treated of the nature of that glory which Christ giveth to all beleevers: The next considerable is the description of the manner and way how Christ comes to have this glory, and that is said to be by way of gift, The glory which thou gavest me, Now this seemeth very hard to understand how Christ being God could receive any thing, for as God can have nothing given him, so it should seem Christ neither could have any thing given him, insomuch that this place with many others of the like fence is brought by the Socinians as an unanswerable Argument, that Christ was not truly and essentially God, for they heap up many places of Scripture where all that Christ hath is said to be given him, and from hence conclude he cannot be God; But the weakness of this will appear in further discovery of this Truth, which that it may be more clearly understood, Observe,