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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. Let us Consider the Grounds why they are to be endowed with Truth,1 and to have a sound mind.
1. Let us Consider the Grounds why they are to be endowed with Truth,1 and to have a sound minde.
- 1Why it is requisite Ministers should be endowed with soundness of judgement.Why it is requisite Ministers should be endowed with soundnesse of judgement.
And first, From the Quality of the Office; Their Office is to preach the Truth; They are appointed to declare the Word of God, and that only not humane Inventions, not the thoughts of their own heart, for if Christ himself avoucheth this, that his doctrine was not his own, but his that sent him, and doth still refer all to the Father that sent him, how much more ought the Ministers of God to declare what they read, and what they have received of God by the Scriptures, not their own conceits; Thus the Prophets of old began their Sermons with Thus saith the Lord, and the Apostles begin their Epistles with their call and office, Apostles and Servants of God; Seeing therefore they have such an Office and Trust that requireth in the very Essentials of it nothing but Truth, they ought earnestly to pray for it; They are called the Light and the Salt of the Earth; Now if the Light be dark all the body is dark; If Salt hath lost his Seasoning, it's good for nothing; By their Office they are to be the Ministers of Truth, as Paul said, I can do nothing against the Truth, but for it, 2 Corinth. 13.8. This is a Minister after Gods own Heart that is thus qualified.