A30241:2976
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.
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.
These things premised,1 Let us now consider what was given him of the Father, And
- 1What things were given Christ of the Father.
1. Christ even as God had many things given him in respect of external Declaration: Thus when glory and honour is given unto him by the Father, as in that exceeding glorious manifestation, when it was said, Thou art my well-beloved Son, this was external glory, God gave the outward manifestation of glory, that which did already belong to him.
1. Christ even as God had many things given him in respect of externall Declaration: Thus when glory and honour is given unto him by the Father, as in that exceeding glorious manifestation, when it was said, Thou art my well-beloved Son, this was external glory, God gave the outward manifestation of glory, that which did already belong to him.
2. We read of his Office of Mediatorship, and that was also given to him: Hence it is that it's so often said that the Father sent him into the world, not as if the Son did not willingly consent to this office also, only the Father he assigned and appointed him who was also willing to this work; So that to be a Mediator, to be sent into the world, &c. they are mixed Attributes, for they denote perfection and some imperfection; To be sent, To feel the glory of the Father, these denote he was man as well as God, but so to be sent as by his own power and strength to work out our Salvation, and purchase our peace, argueth the highest perfection, which none but a God can do; So that this is necessary to be observed when the Scripture speaks of his appointment to this official Kingdom of a Mediator, this no ways takes off from Christs God-head, but necessarily supposeth it, because none but God can perform that work.