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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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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.
1And First, It's Truth in regard of the Efficient Cause, God and Christ who are the Author of it, so that the Scripture can no more lye then God or Christ could. The Scriptures then are the Truth of him who is the Supreme Truth, So that as Truth it self cannot be false, so neither can Gods Word; Humane Truth is Truth, but yet because every man may err, Therefore we cannot have such a Faith in it, Cui non potest subesse falsum, but when we come unto Gods Word, and his Truth, it is impossible that there should he any Error.
1And First, It's Truth in regard of the Efficient Cause, God and Christ who are the Authour of it, so that the Scripture can no more lye then God or Christ could. The Scriptures then are the Truth of him who is the Supream Truth, So that as Truth it self cannot be false, so neither can Gods Word; Humane Truth is Truth, but yet because every man may erre, Therefore we cannot have such a Faith in it, Cui non potest subesse falsum, but when we come unto Gods Word, and his Truth, it is impossible that there should he any Errour.
- 1I. In regard of the efficient Cause God.
1Secondly, It is the Rule of all Truth; That as God is the primum principium essendi, of giving being to all Truth; so the Scripture is the primum principium cognoscendi, the first principle to teach and inform us: The Scripture then is true, because all Divine Truth floweth from that, and every thing is true so far as it is commensurated according to that Rule; Whatsoever men say, whatsoever Reason saith, whatsoever Traditions and Customs say, yet if against Scripture, away with all; This is the Standard of all Truth, all Truth (I say) necessary to Salvation, It is the Christians Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics, the Rule of all Speculative and Practical ⟨p. 475⟩