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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.
Secondly, The property of the Son is, to be begotten of the Father. And herein lieth the true proper difference of those two Persons, The Father is of himself not begotten, the Son is of the Father and begotten: Now this doth imply, that Christ hath not his being by creation, as Adam had, and Angels, who therefore are called The sons of God, but truly and really by generation, for so the Scripture appropriates this to him, That he is the only begotten Son of God; only you are not to measure this spiritual and eternal generation with that of the creatures, but to abstract it from all such humane imperfections; and therefore though it be truly a generation, yet it's not of the same univocal nature with that of creatures: So that as God is not in a predicament, neither is there the same univocal being to God, and the creature: Thus it is also in this generation. Let us not therefore judge of this mystery by examples and instances from the creature; for as the nature of God is incomprehensible, so also is this generation.
Use 1. To bewail the doctrinal errors and blasphemies whereby the devil hath seduced many in this point: Oh pray to God to preserve thee from such poison! Many desperately preach and write, that Christ is not truly God, nor the eternal God, and so make us guilty of horrible Idolatry, and withal overthrow the pillars and foundations of Religion. By this we see, that blasphemy and damnable heresies are in our nature, which we should be plunged into, if God leave us unto our selves.
Ʋse 1. To bewail the doctrinal errours and blasphemies whereby the devil hath seduced many in this point: Oh pray to God to preserve thee from such poison! Many desperately preach and write, that Christ is not truly God, nor the eternal God, and so make us guilty of horrible Idolatry, and withall overthrow the pillars and foundations of Religion. By this we see, that blasphemy and damnable heresies are in our nature, which we should be plunged into, if God leave us unto our selves.