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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.
IN this Verse our Saviour addeth a new argument for that Petition mention mentioned v. 1. Glorify me. Why? because I have glorified thee on earth, I have finished my work: Now his work is done, he expects his reward; These words our Saviour doth not speak out of ostentation and boasting, but to show the order God appointed, that by his sufferings when perfected he should enter into glory.
IN this Verse our Saviour addeth a new argument for that Petition mention mentioned v. 1. Glorifie me. Why? because I have glorified thee on earth, I have finished my work: Now his work is done, he expects his reward; These words our Saviour doth not speak out of ostentation and boasting, but to shew the order God appointed, that by his sufferings when perfected he should enter into glory.
In the words we have Christs profession of the end he intended in all things, I have glorified thee on earth.
2. The manner how, or the means by which, I have finished the work thou gavest me to do. I have glorified thee, though Christ as God had all divine glory due to him, yet as Mediator in the state of humiliation, so he was inferior to the Father, and in this sense he did glorify him.
2. The manner how, or the means by which, I have finished the work thou gavest me to do. I have glorified thee, though Christ as God had all divine glory due to him, yet as Mediatour in the state of humiliation, so he was inferiour to the Father, and in this sence he did glorifie him.