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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.
2. Relatively, as in these three Persons. God absolutely considered may be ⟨p. 583⟩known by the book of nature, relatively only by the Scripture and revelation. By the creatures we only can come to know that there is a God, maker of all things, but that this God is distinguished by three personal proprieties, is not matter of investigation, but faith only: Therefore howsoever some learned men have endeavoured to illustrate this mystery from humane Philosophers, especially the Platonists, who speak of three principles, the Mind, the Word, and the Spirit, yet they made these three distinct Essences, and cannot be applied to this mystery, though, it may be, they had these confused notions from some ancient tradition of the Hebrews. In the Old Testament this mystery was believed and received; Therefore good and solid Arguments may be fetched thence to prove this Doctrine, yet in the New Testament, Christ, who is the [Greek or Hebrew], the Word, doth more expressly reveal it; so that in those who do believe the Scriptures, yet obstinately and blasphemously not only deny, but deride the Doctrine of the Trinity, it is a very high sin and blasphemy.
2. Relatively, as in these three Persons. God absolutely considered may be ⟨p. 583⟩known by the book of nature, relatively only by the Scripture and revelation. By the creatures we only can come to know that there is a God, maker of all things, but that this God is distinguished by three personal proprieties, is not matter of investigation, but faith only: Therefore howsoever some learned men have endeavoured to illustrate this mystery from humane Philosophers, especially the Platonists, who speak of three principles, the Minde, the Word, and the Spirit, yet they made these three distinct Essences, and cannot be applied to this mystery, though, it may be, they had these confused notions from some ancient tradition of the Hebrews. In the Old Testament this mystery was believed and received; Therefore good and solid Arguments may be fetcht thence to prove this Doctrine, yet in the New Testament, Christ, who is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Word, doth more expresly reveal it; so that in those who do believe the Scriptures, yet obstinately and blasphemously not only deny, but deride the Doctrine of the Trinity, it is a very high sin and blasphemy.