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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.
Sermon 48: The Deity of Jesus Christ cleared and defended against the Socinians.
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.
1The Use of this Doctrine is very fruitful, 1. By doctrinal Information of the deity of Christ, that he is truly God, having all things God the Father hath, therefore retain by a strong Faith this Article of Religion,2 and the rather because so many have brought in damnable assertions about this Point; Socinus doth impudently say, that this doctrine of Christs Deity is so absurd, that the Christian world will one day be so far informed as to be ashamed to believe such a thing, yea, to hear such a thing, and that the word Trinity may be in time as much abhorred as Transubstantiation and the Mass; Fly from such persons as those that have a spiritual plague; This hath been so often cleared by the Church in all ages, that now there needs no more disputation in it, we must not always be proving but we must at last hold fast that which is good; Remember your Baptism it was In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost; These you are with the same faith to acknowledge, to these you are equally consecrated.
1The Ʋse of this Doctrine is very fruitfull, 1. By doctrinall Information of the deity of Christ, that he is truly God, having all things God the Father hath, therefore retain by a strong Faith this Article of Religion,2 and the rather because so many have brought in damnable assertions about this Point; Socinus doth impudently say, that this doctrine of Christs Deity is so absurd, that the Christian world will one day be so farre informed as to be ashamed to beleeve such a thing, yea, to hear such a thing, and that the word Trinity may be in time as much abhorred as Transubstantiation and the Mass; Fly from such persons as those that have a spiritual plague; This hath been so often cleared by the Church in all ages, that now there needs no more disputation in it, we must not alwaies be proving but we must at last hold fast that which is good; Remember your Baptism it was In the Name of the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost; These you are with the same faith to acknowledge, to these you are equally consecrated.
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