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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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Secondly, Consider in that Christ was thus God from all Eternity, when he became man, he did not cease to be God, for although the Scripture saith, Phi. 2. That he humbled himself, and emptied himself, yet it doth not say he ceased to be God, even in the midst of all his Infirmities, and therefore Christs blood is called the blood of God, Act. 25. not that he suffered in his divine nature, but that he who suffered in his humane nature was also God, and it's no wonder he did not cease to be God, for it's impossible that God should cease to be God, all creatures if they are not corruptible, yet they are annihilable, if they have no principle of dissolution, yet they have stronger power without, that is able to turn them into nothing: Therefore God alone is said to have Immortality, 1 Tim 6.15. So then he doth not pray for glory, as if he had lost it, but only the outward manifestation of it was suppressed for a time, and therefore it is that he now prayeth the Cloud may be withdrawn, that so the Sun may appear in its full glory.
Secondly, Consider in that Christ was thus God from all Eternity, when he became man, he did not cease to be God, for although the Scripture saith, Phi. 2. That he humbled himself, and emptied himself, yet it doth not say he ceased to be God, even in the midst of all his Infirmities, and therefore Christs bloud is called the bloud of God, Act. 25. not that he suffered in his divine nature, but that he who suffered in his humane nature was also God, and it's no wonder he did not cease to be God, for it's impossible that God should cease to be God, all creatures if they are not corruptible, yet they are annihilable, if they have no principle of dissolution, yet they have stronger power without, that is able to turn them into nothing: Therefore God alone is said to have Immortality, 1 Tim 6.15. So then he doth not pray for glory, as if he had lost it, but only the outward manifestation of it was suppressed for a time, and therefore it is that he now praieth the Cloud may be withdrawn, that so the Sun may appear in its full glory.