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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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Sometimes God did govern his Church by his Word as revealed only; Thus it was with the Church at first, In this latter Age he guides it by the Scriptures only; There is no other Word of God, but what is written; In Christs time there was both, for there were the Books of the Old Testament, and they were Gods written Word, and what Christ while on the Earth did with his own mouth speak to the Church, that was the Revealed Word and Will of God; We read not that Christ wrote any thing but once upon the Ground, and what that was, though there are many and several Conjectures, yet none can certainly tell: But what Christ spake and did, the Evangelists afterwards being guided infallibly by the divine Spirit of God, did commit to Writing;
Sometimes God did govern his Church by his Word as revealed only; Thus it was with the Church at first, In this latter Age he guides it by the Scriptures only; There is no other Word of God, but what is written; In Christs time there was both, for there were the Books of the Old Testament, and they were Gods written Word, and what Christ while on the Earth did with his own mouth speak to the Church, that was the Revealed Word and Will of God; We reade not that Christ wrote any thing but once upon the Ground, and what that was, though there are many and severall Conjectures, yet none can certainly tell: But what Christ spake and did, the Evangelists afterwards being guided infallibly by the divine Spirit of God, did commit to Writing;
Object. If then you ask, What Word of God it is our Saviour doth here mean?
I answer, Both the Word that was written, the Scriptures, that were the Oracles of God committed to the Jews, and that Word which he did manifest to his Disciples, of which he had spoken ver. 6.
I answer, Both the Word that was written, the Scripures, that were the Oracles of God committed to the Jews, and that Word which he did manifest to his Disciples, of which he had spoken ver. 6.