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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.
THE next thing considerable is, The description of the Subject, about which Christ did thus employ himself, and they are set out
THE next thing considerable is, The description of the Subject, about which Christ did thus imploy himself, and they are set out
1. From their original descent, and heavenly rise, These God hath given Christ, but of this we have already treated, and shall say more before we come to the end of the Chapter, it being often repeated.
2. From the term from which, they are given out of the world, They are given to Christ out of the world.
The Scripture in this Chapter makes a distinction of being in the world, and of the world; The people of God, even as Christ himself and his Kingdom are in the world, but they are not of the world; As a Stranger in a foreign Country, he is in that Country but not of it; he hath not the nature, the Language, nor doth he accustom himself to the fashion of that place, Thus it is with the godly, Though they are born and so live in the world, yet their natures and affections, and conversations are not worldly; As the Fowls that were at first created out of the water yet did not continue there but flew up to heaven and continue for the most part there; As clouds though of the earth, yet are carried about after the motions of the heavens; They are not then given out of the world, so as if every good man were presently upon his godliness removed out of this earth to heaven; but in respect of their nature, affections, and conversation;