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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.
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⟩Truth, To the Law, and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this, it is because there is no light in them, Isaiah 8.20. Therefore it is so often called a Light unto our Feet; If this principle were kept too; Neither Superstitious Traditions on the one hand, nor subtle Delusions of pretended Revelations on the other hand could ever have molested or troubled the Church.
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 farre as it is commensurated according to that Rule; Whatsoever men say, whatsoever Reason saith, whatsoever Traditions and Customes 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 Metaphysicks, Ethicks, and Politiques, the Rule of all Speculative and Practicall ⟨p. 475⟩Truth, To the Law, and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this, it is because there is no light in them, Isaiah 8.20. Therefore it is so often called a Light unto our Feet; If this principle were kept too; Neither Superstitious Traditions on the one hand, nor subtle Delusions of pretended Revelations on the other hand could ever have molested or troubled the Church.