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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.
Sermon 18: The Necessity of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus as well as of God the Father.
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.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to save, as the Angell plainly interprets it, his Name shall be called Jesus, because he shall save his people from their sinnes, 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.
2. His Name of office Christ, as much as anointed, I shall not say much of this word now, Though the word be attributed to others, yet Jesus is properly called the Messiah, he is the Unctus unctorum, the anointed of the anointed, and this doth especially demonstrate the Priestly and the Kingly office of Christ,
2. His Name of office Christ, as much as anointed, I shall not say much of this word now, Though the word be attributed to others, yet Jesus is properly called the Messias, he is the Ʋnctus unctorum, the anointed of the anointed, and this doth especially demonstrate the Priestly and the Kingly office of Christ,