A30241:1847
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 LXXV. Of the Truth of Scripture-Prophesies; And against Judicial Astrology and Witchcraft; Showing the Vanity and Wickedness thereof, and of Seeking to them.
SERMON LXXV. Of the Truth of Scripture-Prophesies; And against Judiciall Astrologie and Witchcraft; Shewing the Vanity and Wickednesse thereof, and of Seeking to them.
JOH. 17.12. That the Scripture might be fulfilled.
JOH. 17.12. That the Scripture might be fullfilled.
I shall at this time conclude this Text which hath been so fruitful in spiritual matter, but before I come to make the last Observation let us Consider,
In how many senses the Scripture may be said to be fulfilled, For there are divers ways of understanding this, and indeed there is scarce any thing more difficult in Religion, then to make an happy reconciliation of the places quoted in the New Testament with the Old; At the first view of many of those allegations, you would think there were violent deflections of the Scripture to another sense, then was intended, but we Christians believe that the same Spirit which breathed on the Prophets, did also inspire the holy Apostles for the right interpretation of them; Though therefore the Solution of every difficulty surpass the ability of the most Learned Interpreter, yet we are to captivate our understandings to the Truth of the Scripture, and not the Scripture to our Understandings, and nothing will better facilitate a right Understanding of Scripture-allegations then to know that the Scripture may be said to be fulfilled two ways,