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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.
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, Joh. 6.69. We beleeve and are sure that thou art that Christ the Sonne of the living God; Therefore they would not leave him because he only had the words of eternal life.
1Obs. It's our special duty to know and believe in Christ, as the only Mediator sent by God; We are to know Christ is of God appointed to be our Saviour; This is the Faith so often required in the Gospel, and which is so powerful that he who believeth shall be saved, but he that doth not the anger of God abideth on him; and indeed how can he deserve the Title and Name of a Christian that doth not thus know or believe, but upon search it will appear that there are few do thus know Christ.