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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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2. If by it we understand it thus, there is no Prophet having the Spirit of God moving in them that is so extraordinarily wrought upon but he may retain those motions, and vent them in an orderly way, not to speak while others are speaking, which seemeth to be the scope of the Apostle in that place; This is very pertinent to my matter, that no man can have such revelations and impulses from Gods Spirit but that he is in a divine method and good order to declare them, for the unseasonable publishing of some things is like good Physic but not administered in its fit season.
2. If by it we understand it thus, there is no Prophet having the Spirit of God moving in them that is so extraordinarily wrought upon but he may retain those motions, and vent them in an orderly way, not to speak while others are speaking, which seemeth to be the scope of the Apostle in that place; This is very pertinent to my matter, that no man can have such revelations and impulses from Gods Spirit but that he is in a divine method and good order to declare them, for the unseasonable publishing of some things is like good Physick but not administred in its fit season.
Lastly, To keep up the unity of faith this is a special means, when we do highly prize and delight in the known plain truths of Christ▪ Paul that was snatched up in the third Heavens, yet desired to know nothing but Christ crucified; Peter thought it not inconvenient to write the same things they knew already; Certainly nothing hath more rent and torn the Church of God then affectation of singular high things, To bring in some unheard and unknown Truths, Oh this is the pride of mens hearts, to have it said, Such a man was the first that brought that nation into the world, as the Jesuit of his scientia media, Ego primus inveni; But to be weary of the known truth is in effect to be weary of the same God, the same Christ, Why do we not desire a new Sun, a new Earth, a new world as well?
Lastly, To keep up the unity of faith this is a special means, when we do highly prize and delight in the known plain truths of Christ Paul that was snatched up in the third Heavens, yet desired to know nothing but Christ crucified; Peter thought it not inconvenient to write the same things they knew already; Certainly nothing hath more rent and torn the Church of God then affectation of singular high things, To bring in some unheard and unknown Truths, Oh this is the pride of mens hearts, to have it said, Such a man was the first that brought that nation into the world, as the Jesuite of his scientia media, Ego primus inveni; But to be weary of the known truth is in effect to be weary of the same God, the same Christ, Why do we not desire a new Sun, a new Earth, a new world as well?