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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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That whatsoever the Scripture saith, is sure to be made good. Our Saviour saith, Matth. 5. It's surer then the heaven and earth,1 and that every tittle of it is more enduring then the Heavens themselves. It's of great consequence to establish you in this point: For if the Scripture be true, and will be made good in every particular, then the godly may lift up their heads with joy, and the wicked bow down with fear and trembling.
- 1Observ. That whatsoever the Scripture saith, is sure to be made good.
To open this, Consider the expression, That the Scripture may be fulfilled; The word of God is called the Scripture, which is as much as the written Word. The word of God in respect of the accidental communicating of it, may be divided into that which is Traditum or Scriptum; that which was immediately delivered either by God himself, or inspired into the Prophets, to be communicated to the Church, or else that which was commanded to be written, and so to be a perpetual standing Rule, according to which the Church should walk in […] ⟨p. 392⟩soever shall come to pass: And herein it will infallibly prove true; for as we read of many predictions of old, they were accomplished at that time, and in that manner, as God had fore-told; so we may justly conclude for the future, that it will be in the like manner. Whatsoever God hath fore-told by the Scripture concerning a day of Judgement, and the everlasting torments of the damned, that there shall be a Resurrection of the body, and that every one shall give an account for what hath been done here; Expect it, and believe it, as surely as if it were already done; Oh what a deal of security and boldness is there in sinners, because they believe not this! Did they think they heard the sound of the Trump of the last day ringing in their ears, Arise, and come to judgement? What holy fear and trembling would possess them? whereas because they live for the present in jollity, and so many years the world and all things have continued as they were, therefore they think there will never be any change; such were those mockers Peter speaks of,