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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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Argum. 1 First, Because by him all things were created, Joh. 1. In the beginning was the Word, 1and the Word was with God, and was God; By him all things were created, and without him nothing was made that was made; Observe, whatsoever was made was made by him so that if Christ were not the Eternal God he should make himself, for saith the Text Without him was made nothing that was made: The same thing is affirmed also, Col. 2. That all things in heaven or earth, visible and invisible were made by him, So that he who was before all things made them and gave them a being, must needs be Eternal, but thus it is plain by Scripture Christ was.
- 1That Christ had an eternal being.
Argum. 2 2. It's plain he was from all Eternity in that he is truly God, and so hath all the essential attributes of God, whereof eternity and immutability are very choice ones; That Christ is God is not now my Subject, in time we may show the proper and incommunicable Name of Jehovah is given to him, and that directly which is not in all the Scripture attributed directly to any creature, Angel or man, All the divine attributes of God, All the peculiar and proper operations of God, which only God can do, are given to him, and therefore in being God he must needs be from Eternity, and for Christs Immutability you have a full place, Heb. 13.18. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever; By yesterday according to the Scriptures use is meant all time past, so that although the Officers in the Church die, and there are such in one age that are not in another, yet here Christ the head he abideth for ever; This is spoken by way of consolation, and certainly Christs Eternity is a foundation of unspeakable joy to the people of God.