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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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Secondly, Divisions must needs put a stop to the progress of truth, because God is acknowledged by all to be a God of peace and of order. The Apostle useth this consideration to restrain those confusions and disorderly customs the Christians had in their public Assemblies, 1 Cor. 14. If then God be a God of peace and order, how can any man think his truth and people are there, where all disorder and confusion is? It's Babel, and not Jerusalem, that in the building thereof men were so confounded, that they understood not the language of one another, Jam. 3.16. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Now every one is apt to argue, certainly if this were the way of God, if these were the people of God, there would not be such confusion amongst them; God that made this great world in such excellent order, would much more make his Church, his choicest plant more beautiful.
Secondly, Divisions must needs put a stop to the progresse of truth, because God is acknowledged by all to be a God of peace and of order. The Apostle useth this consideration to restrain those confusions and disorderly customs the Christians had in their publique Assemblies, 1 Cor. 14. If then God be a God of peace and order, how can any man think his truth and people are there, where all disorder and confusion is? It's Babel, and not Jerusalem, that in the building thereof men were so confounded, that they understood not the language of one another, Jam. 3.16. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Now every one is apt to argue, certainly if this were the way of God, if these were the people of God, there would not be such confusion amongst them; God that made this great world in such excellent order, would much more make his Church, his choicest plant more beautifull.