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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.
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.
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.
2. We reade 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 Mediatour, to be sent into the world, &c. they are mixt 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 pefection, which none but a God can do; So that this is necessary to be observed when the Scripture speaks of his appointment to this officiall Kingdom of a Mediatour, this no waies takes off from Christs God-head, but necessarily supposeth it, because none but God can perform that work.
3. The Scripture speaks of persons that are given him of the Father, and this expression is very often with the Apostle John in this Chapter, it's many times repeated, Those that thou hast given me, So Joh. 6.59