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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.
JOH. 17.8. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, And they have received them, &c.
OUR Saviour in this Verse doth more largely amplify that to which he had in the 7th Verse spoken more briefly, so that he doth still continue in narrating and commending the Disciples Obedience and Faith, which are the Jachin and the Boaz, the two Pillars of practical Christianity; Their obedience is commended in the former part,
OUR Saviour in this Verse doth more largely amplifie that to which he had in the 7th Verse spoken more briefly, so that he doth still continue in narrating and commending the Disciples Obedience and Faith, which are the Jachin and the Boaz, the two Pillars of practicall Christianity; Their obedience is commended in the former part,
1. By their readiness and willingness [Greek or Hebrew], They have received, as willingly as men do food, or gold and silver; They put forth their hands to take it with all delight, I mean the hands of their soul, viz. their affections which are both the feet and the hands of the soul.
1. By their readinesse and willingnesse 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, They have received, as willingly as men do food, or gold and silver; They put forth their hands to take it with all delight, I mean the hands of their soul, viz. their affections which are both the feet and the hands of the soul.