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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
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Sermon 58: The Greatness of the Mercy of being kept sound in the Truth: And the Damnableness of Er…
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Secondly, True Doctrine is a special mercy, 1because one main end of the Scripture is to inform and keep us therein. As God made the Sun a fountain of all light, and the Stars shine with a borrowed light from it; so hath God put all spiritual light into the Scriptures, and with this Sun both Pastor and people are to be clothed. The Scripture is not only a rule of our life, but of our faith principally, 2 Tim. 3.16. The Apostle there reckoning up the admirable use, and end of the Scriptures, puts this in the first place, That it is profitable for Doctrine; How then dare a man say, it's no matter what Religion I am of, all the doctrinal Disputes are but Scholastical Subtleties? Is not this to blaspheme the perfection of the Scripture? and is it not horrible ingratitude to God, who giveth his Church the Scriptures, as the most glorious Jewel it can enjoy? This was the Jews privilege, to them were committed the Oracles of God, Rom. 9.
Secondly, True Doctrine is a special mercy, 1because one main end of the Scripture is to inform and keep us therein. As God made the Sunne a fountain of all light, and the Starres shine with a borrowed light from it; so hath God put all spiritual light into the Scriptures, and with this Sunne both Pastour and people are to be cloathed. The Scripture is not only a rule of our life, but of our faith principally, 2 Tim. 3.16. The Apostle there reckoning up the admirable use, and end of the Scriptures, puts this in the first place, That it is profitable for Doctrine; How then dare a man say, it's no matter what Religion I am of, all the doctrinal Disputes are but Scholastical Subtilties? Is not this to blaspheme the perfection of the Scripture? and is it not horrible ingratitude to God, who giveth his Church the Scriptures, as the most glorious Jewel it can enjoy? This was the Jews priviledge, to them were committed the Oracles of God, Rom. 9.
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