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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 24: Of vain Tautology in Prayer; And what Repetitions in Prayer are such, and what not; She…
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That Repetition of the same matter in a Prayer is not always a sinful Tautology, 1but is sometimes lawful, yea, useful and necessary: None can think that our Saviour in whom is the Treasure of Wisdom, and who is the essential Word of God, who also giveth the gifts of prayer to the Church, that he himself should be straitened either for matter or words, but this ingemination proceeds from some other excellent ground.
That Repetition of the same matter in a Praier is not alwaies a sinful Tautology, 1but is sometimes lawful, yea, useful and necessary: None can think that our Saviour in whom is the Treasure of Wisedom, and who is the essentiall Word of God, who also giveth the gifts of praier to the Church, that he himself should be straitned either for matter or words, but this ingemination proceeds from some other excellent ground.
- 1Doct. That Repetition of rhe same matter in prayer is not always sinful Tautology but very necessary. To open the Point consider these things.Doct. That Repetition of rhe same matter in praier is not alwaies sinfull Tautology but very necessary. To open the Point consider these things.
To open this Point Consider,
1. That the same matter may be repeated either in sense only but in different words, or else in the very same sense and words; When it's done the former way, we say a man doth [Greek or Hebrew], but not [Greek or Hebrew] In the latter way, unless there be some grave and serious cause, it's a vain Tautology, for the former kind of repetition, the Psalms which are accounted like the Stars in the Scripture Firmament, are very frequent in it; Many verses being the ingemination of the same sense, only in some different words, and this we do not so commonly call a repetition of the same thing, because every new word the holy Ghost hath doth represent some new notion to the understanding, so that it's like the same meat under several dishings, that affords a peculiar taste, or like the Philasophers matter, which they say is always the same, though under divers forms; Now our Saviour in this prayer doth not only use the same matter but the same words, Father glorify thou me.