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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.
The Apostle John of all the Evangelists is compared to an Eagle, because he treateth of the highest and most sublime matter; For as it is commonly received, He outliving all the other Apostles, there were damnable Heretics risen up that denied Christ to be God, at the Churches entreaty therefore he wrote this Book, mainly asserting Christs Godhead, and handling those things especially which the other Evangelists had left out, especially insisting upon those excellent discourses and dialogues Christ had with the Pharisees; As also those divine Instructions and consolations he gave his Disciples at his departure from them, of which the other Evangelists record nothing at all: Now when our Saviour had been large in instructing and confirming them, he bends himself to earnest prayer for them, that what he had said might take place in their hearts, so that in the Chapter you may take notice of, 1. The Introduction to the matter, and 2. The Matter it self.
The Apostle John of all the Evangelists is compared to an Eagle, because he treateth of the highest and most sublime matter; For as it is commonly received, He outliving all the other Apostles, there were damnable Hereticks risen up that denied Christ to be God, at the Churches entreaty therefore he wrote this Book, mainly asserting Christs Godhead, and handling those things especially which the other Evangelists had left out, especially insisting upon those excellent discourses and dialogues Christ had with the Pharisees; As also those divine Instructions and consolations he gave his Disciples at his departure from them, of which the other Evangelists record nothing at all: Now when our Saviour had been large in instructing and confirming them, he bends himself to earnest praier for them, that what he had said might take place in their hearts, so that in the Chapter you may take notice of, 1. The Introduction to the matter, and 2. The Matter it self.
The matter is Christs earnest prayer, and that for a threefold Object, 1. Himself. 2. His Apostles. 3. All others who in time should believe in him.
The matter is Christs earnest prayer, and that for a threefold Object, 1. Himself. 2. His Apostles. 3. All others who in time should beleeve in him.