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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 18: The Necessity of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus as well as of God the Father.
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JOH. 17.3. And Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
WE now come to the second Object of this knowledge necessary to salvation, and that is Christ. This latter Object is added because of the Jews, and some Heretics, who though they acknowledge the only true God, yet because they are either ignorant of, or deny Christ, therefore they are not in the way to salvation; The object to be known is described, 1. By his proper Name. 2. By his appellative or name of office. 3. From the Original and Cause of it.
WE now come to the second Object of this knowledge necessary to salvation, and that is Christ. This latter Object is added because of the Jews, and some Heretiques, who though they acknowledge the only true God, yet because they are eirher ignorant of, or deny Christ, therefore they are not in the way to salvation; The object to be known is described, 1. By his proper Name. 2. By his appellative or name of office. 3. From the Original and Cause of it.
His proper name is Jesus, Though some learned men have affected to go out of the ordinary way in giving the true root of this word, yet certainly the most common derivation of it is most true, viz. that it comes from the word [Greek or Hebrew] to save, as the Angel plainly interprets it, his Name shall be called Jesus, because he shall save his people from their sins, Mat. 1.21. It's the same with Joshua, who was so called, because he delivered the people out of their temporal miseries, and brought them into Canaan, being herein a Type of Christ.
His proper name is Jesus, Though some learned men have affected to go out of the ordinary way in giving the true root of this word, yet certainly the most common derivation of it is most true, viz. that it comes from the word to save, as the Angell plainly interprets it, his Name shall be called Jesus, because he shall save his people from their sinnes,