
Christ's Prayer Before His Passion
Expository Sermons on John 17, 2 Volumes
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About this book
In Christ's Prayer before His Passion , a major work consisting of 145 sermons, Anthony Burgess expounds such topics as God the Father and God the Son, the love of God, providence over death, election, the deity of Christ, the Mediator as teacher and priest and king, union with Christ, the knowledge of God, eternal life, justification, sanctification, obedience, separation from the world, faith, prayer, perseverance, worship, Christian unity, gospel ministry, and the glory of heaven. All these truths are discussed by this judicious Puritan divine according to the order of the text in John 17.
Burgess rightly regarded John 17 as a mountaintop of divine revelation, "a pearl in the gold" of the Bible. He asserts that the Lord offers this prayer in the presence of His disciples so that those who hear it (and later, those who read it) might be filled with joy. This prayer is especially significant because Jesus utters it the night before His crucifixion, which is the climax of His earthly work. Burgess thus asks his readers, "If the words of a dying man are much to be regarded, how much more of a dying Christ?" In this light, Anthony Burgess expounds John 17 as the prayer of Christ, both as our Mediator—if we are believers—and as the model of a godly man.
Originally published as CXLV Expository Sermons upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel according to John: or, Christ's Prayer before His Passion Explicated, and both Practically and Polemically Improved (London: Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656).
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Author's Preface
- Introduction
- John 17.1 - Sermons 1-6
- John 17.2 - Sermons 7-13
- John 17.3 - Sermons 14-18
- John 17.4 - Sermons 19-22
- John 17.5 - Sermons 23-28
- John 17.6 - Sermons 29-33
- John 17.7 - Sermons 34-35
- John 17.8 - Sermons 36-40
- John 17.9 - Sermons 41-47
- John 17.10 - Sermons 48-49
- John 17.11 - Sermons 50-60
- John 17.12 - Sermons 61-75
- John 17.13 - Sermons 76-79
- John 17.14 - Sermons 80-84
- John 17.15 - Sermons 85-87
- John 17.16 - Sermons 88
- John 17.17 - Sermons 89-93
- John 17.18 - Sermons 94-97
- John 17.19 - Sermons 98-101
- John 17.20 - Sermons 102-111
- John 17.21 - Sermons 112-121
- John 17.22 - Sermons 122-125
- John 17.23 - Sermons 126-132
- John 17.24 - Sermons 133-138
- John 17.25 - Sermons 139-142
- John 17.26 - Sermons 143-145