A30241:1864
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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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.
Again, If the Heavens be causes they are only Universal Causes, now from an Universal indeterminate cause there cannot be any special particular effect foretold; For besides Universal Causes, all particular interior Causes, which are many and uncertain, must be known also.
Again, If the Heavens be causes they are only Universal Causes, now from an Ʋniversal indeterminate cause there cannot be any special particular effect foretold; For besides Universal Causes, all particular interiour Causes, which are many and uncertain, must be known also.
Lastly, This would bring a Contempt of God, and mere Atheism into the world; The Scripture carrieth us out to God in all things, to his Wisdom, to his Power, to his Justice, but these would bind us to the Planets, yea, by these means the Scripture also will be despised and laid aside, so that all profaneness will thereby be introduced, yea, and excuses for all Vice will be pleaded how could they help it? Seeing they were born under such a Star, as Austin reports of an Astrologer handsomely reproved by his Servant, He had a Servant that stole from him, and this Astrologer his Master going to correct him, he crieth out, I could not help it, I was born under Mercury (They say, those born under that Planet are given to stealing;) ⟨p. 398⟩Thus by his Masters own principles and Rules of Art he convinced him.
Lastly, This would bring a Contempt of God, and meer Athiesm into the world; The Scripture carrieth us out to God in all things, to his Wisedome, to his Power, to his Justice, but these would binde us to the Planets, yea, by these means the Scripture also will be despised and laid aside, so that all prophanesse will thereby be introduced, yea, and excuses for all Vice will be pleaded how could they help it? Seeing they were born under such a Starre, as Austin reports of an Astrologer handsomely reproved by his Servant, He had a Servant that stole from him, and this Astrologer his Master going to correct him, he cryeth out, I could not help it, I was born under Mercury (They say, those born under that Planet are given to stealing;)