CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

We proceed to the Object of their faith and knowledge, That Christ had all things from the Father; and so was the Messiah sent by him; The excellency and dignity of this Faith is to be handled in the next verse.

We proceed to the Object of their faith and knowledge, That Christ had all things from the Father; and so was the Messias sent by him; The excellency and dignity of this Faith is to be handled in the next verse.

We shall here take notice of the nature of it;

In the 2d verse of this Chapter it was made Eternal life to know Jesus Christ as sent by the Father, and here our Saviour affirmeth that his Disciples had this knowledge, viz. That he was the true Messiah in whom alone salvation is to be expected: That he was no false Prophet or Impostor, as his adversaries accused, but they knew he came from God, and acknowledged every thing he had to be of God, so that this expression may be paralleled with that confession Peter made in the Name of the disciples, Joh. 6.69. We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God; Therefore they would not leave him because he only had the words of eternal life.

In the 2d verse of this Chapter it was made Eternal life to know Jesus Christ as sent by the Father, and here our Saviour affirmeth that his Disciples had this knowledge, viz. That he was the true Messias in whom alone salvation is to be expected: That he was no false Prophet or Impostor, as his adversaries accused, but they knew he came from God, and acknowledged every thing he had to be of God, so that this expression may be parallelled with that confession Peter made in the Name of the disciples,