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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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3. Whatsoever truth God may have indeed made known to us, or if in our persuasion only, we are to be very careful how we publish it; This hath been constant fire in the Church of God when men either have, or in persuasion only, some doctrine different from the current way of the Church at that time; Now it's a very hard thing thus to be with child as it were, and not to be full of pain till we have delivered it to the world; Why is an obstinate broacher of damnable doctrines called an heretic but because he chooseth his own way? He invents and excogitates a doctrine of his own, therefore compared to thieves and robbers, that go not in by the door but climb up some other way; Now such qualifications as these are necessary,
3. Whatsoever truth God may have indeed made known to us, or if in our perswasion only, we are to be very careful how we publish it; This hath been constant fire in the Church of God when men either have, or in perswasion only, some doctrine different from the current way of the Church at that time; Now it's a very hard thing thus to be with childe as it were, and not to be full of pain till we have delivered it to the world; Why is an obstinate broacher of damnable doctrines called an heretitk but because he chooseth his own way? He invents and excogitates a doctrine of his own, therefore compared to theeves and robbers, that go not in by the door but climbe up some other way; Now such qualifications as these are necessary,
1. To question and examine thy own spirit, not presently to believe thy own heart; This is a firebrand in the Church, when men have no modest doubtings and questionings of their own ignorance and proneness to err even in that thing they are so confident of; how modestly doth the Apostle Paul speak 1 Cor. 7. when he determined the case about marriage, I think also I have the Spirit of God, and he distinguisheth between that which he had as an express command from the Lord, and what he was inwardly directed unto, wheresoever the Spirit of God leadeth into all truth, there he doth likewise into all humility; Thus Luther's Tunè solus sapis es is famously known, though the Papists charge him falsely with contempt of all others.