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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. 3 3. There are plain Texts of Scripture which inform us of the eternal being of Christ, as Joh. 8.55. Before Abraham was I am; What man could say so, I do not say, Before Abraham was, I was, for so every Angel might say, but I am, to signify there is no succession or difference of time in his being as he was God, It's an allusion to that name God takes to himself when he bid Moses say, I AM hath sent thee, Exo. 3.14. and this is the more fully confirmed, Rev. 1.7. where Christ is said to be Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, who is, and was, and is to come; That very attribute which v. 3. is given to God the Father, is here given to God the Son, called also omnipotent, who would think any should be so wilfully blind as not to see light out of this Text.
Argum. 3 3. There are plain Texts of Scripture which inform us of the eternal being of Christ, as Joh. 8.55. Before Abraham was I am; What man could say so, I do not say, Before Abraham was, I was, for so every Angel might say, but I am, to signifie there is no succession or difference of time in his being as he was God, It's an allusion to that name God takes to himself when he bid Moses say, I AM hath sent thee, Exo. 3.14. and this is the more fully confirmed, Rev. 1.7. where Christ is said to be Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, who is, and was, and is to come; That very attribute which v. 3. is given to God the Father, is here given to God the Sonne, called also omnipotent, who would think any should be so wilfully blinde as not to see light out of this Text.