CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

3. It's an eternal Truth; Even as God doth abide for ever, so will his truth,¹ Mat. 5. Heaven and earth shall sooner pass away then one iota or tittle of it. Truth will abide when these heavens and earth shall not abide at least not in the same manner as they are now, and excellently to this purpose speaks 1 Pet. 1.23, 24, 25. being born of the incorruptible word of God, for all flesh is grass, but the word of God abideth for ever; and this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached to you, Scripture-truth abideth for ever, whereas all errors and false ways, though they have overflowed for a while, yet presently they withered again. What is become of the Manichees, Arians, Pelagians, Nestorians, and those thousands of Heretics? They had a time of glory, a show in the world, but then died, neither lamented nor desired; Scripture-truth will prevail, even as Christ the essential Truth. As the Sun will at last get the better of all clouds and foggy mists, and cannot always be in an eclipse; so it's with the truth of God. All errors are like men, mortal, they pass away; if any error be so strong as to hold to threescore years, it begins like man to be full of pain and sorrow; They are compared to hay and stubble, these will not long continue; They are like Davids rich and great men in the world, like the grass upon the house top, not only homo, but haereticus est bulla; Truth will continue in the field, when all errors will lie prostrate and conquered, and have no other burial, but that of an Ass, as that despised King had.

3. It's an eternal Truth; Even as God doth abide for ever, so will his truth,¹ Mat. 5. Heaven and earth shall sooner pass away then one iota or tittle of it. Truth will abide when these heavens and earth shall not abide at least not in the same manner as they are now, and excellently to this purpose speaks 1 Pet. 1.23, 24, 25. being born of the incorruptible word of God, for all flesh is grass, but the word of God abideth for ever; and this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached to you, Scripture-truth abideth for ever, whereas all errours and false ways, though they have overflowed for a while, yet presently they withered again. What is become of the Manichees, Arrians, Pelagians, Nestorians, and those thousands of Heretiques? They had a time of glory, a shew in the world, but then died, neither lamented nor desired; Scripture-truth will prevail, even as Christ the essential Truth. As the Sun will at last get the better of all clouds and foggy mists, and cannot alwayes be in an eclypse; so it's with the truth of God. All errors are like men, mortal, they pass away; if any error be so strong as to hold to threescore years, it begins like man to be full of pain and sorrow; They are compared to hay and stubble, these will not long continue; They are like Davids rich and great men in the world, like the grass upon the house top, not only homo, but haereticus est bulla; Truth will continue in the field, when all errours will lie prostrate and conquered, and have no other burial, but that of an Ass, as that despised King had.