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

First, The implied Truth is, That whatsoever Christ had or was, ¹was not for himself but for us; His fullness was for our emptiness, his atonement for our sins; Even as the full breasts are for suck to the child, or as the efficacy and virtue of the head is for the parts of the body, and as the fullness of the Fountain is for the streams; Thus Isa. 9. To us a Son is born, to us a child is given, All that Christ had and was it was ours, it was for our advantage; Therefore he was called Emmanuel, God with us, and 1 Cor. 1.30. Christ is made of God unto us wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, So that it's plain Christ was not a Messiah, a Mediator, in reference to himself, that is impossible, but to us: For if we take the main particulars in Christ, we shall see how they all tend to believers, that had it not been for their good, such things had never been.

First, The implied Truth is, That whatsoever Christ had or was, ¹was not for himself but for us; His fulnesse was for our emptinesse, his atonement for our sins; Even as the full breasts are for suck to the childe, or as the efficacy and vertue of the head is for the parts of the body, and as the fulnesse of the Fountain is for the streams; Thus Isa. 9. To us a Son is born, to us a childe is given, All that Christ had and was it was ours, it was for our advantge; Therefore he was called Emmanuel, God with us, and 1 Cor. 1.30. Christ is made of God unto us wisedom, righteousnesse, and sanctification, So that it's plain Christ was not a Messias, a Mediatour, in reference to himself, that is impossible, but to us: For if we take the main particulars in Christ, we shall see how they all tend to beleevers, that had it not been for their good, such things had never been.

1. 1I. What Christ had or was as Mediator was for us.