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

3. These words are described by the Original of them, The words thou gavest me, So that Christ though head of the Church, yet did not deliver any thing to be believed or obeyed but what he had received of the Father, an excellent President for all the Ministers of the Gospel; We see then every crumb in this bread of life is nourishing, and we will not lose any.

3. These words are described by the Original of them, The words thou gavest me, So that Christ though head of the Church, yet did not deliver any thing to be beleeved or obeyed but what he had received of the Father, an excellent President for all the Ministers of the Gospel; We see then every crum in this bread of life is nourishing, and we will not lose any.

1. Whereas we see that Obedience doth always relate to some Word of God, and that we may not of our own heads choose to do what we please in matters of Religion; We observe,

1. Whereas we see that Obedience doth alwaies relate to some Word of God, and that we may not of our own heads choose to do what we please in matters of Religion; We observe,

¹That that only is proper and acceptable Obedience which hath the Word of God requiring it; We are apt to make Religion and godliness that which our own humours fancy, yea, and sometimes our lusts do suggest; Hence every one is apt to judge of another as religious and godly, not by the rule of the Word, but by such principles as he hath taken up for himself; Thus in Popery he is judged a very pious and obedient man, who is most industriously diligent in all that invented worship the Church of Rome abounded with; ⟨p. 199⟩