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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.
3. There is a distinction of great antiquity received in the Church between Credere Deum, to beleeve there is a God, Credere Deo, to beleeve God speaking, and Credere in Deum to beleeve in God by inward Union with him, and loving of him; Now although it be true, that the Scripture makes no such difference, adding the Hebrew Preposition Beth, and the Greek [Greek or Hebrew], Even where there is but a bare historical believing there is a God, yet for explication sake it may be received, and those only said to believe in God, who are justified and sanctified, Though the Scripture attribute it sometimes to others.
3. There is a distinction of great antiquity received in the Church between Credere Deum, to beleeve there is a God, Credere Deo, to beleeve God speaking, and Credere in Deum to beleeve in God by inward Union with him, and loving of him; Now although it be true, that the Scripture makes no such difference, adding the Hebrew Preposition Beth, and the Greek 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Even where there is but a bare historicall beleeving there is a God, yet for explication sake it may be received, and those only said to beleeve in God, who are justified and sanctified, Though the Scripture attribute it sometimes to others.
Lastly, Consider that the Soul hath several tendencies and motions to divers Objects; Sometimes it assents to a thing by help of the sense, and that is a knowledge by sense, Sometimes by demonstrative Reasons, it knoweth a thing, and then it's called Science strictly, Sometimes by Testimony or Authority, and then it's called Faith; Now if the authority be divine that saith such a thing, then the Soul cannot be deceived, because God cannot lye, and so there ought to be greater certainty and firmer adhesion to those truths then any thing of sense and Reason, yea, in some sense it hath more evidence; For there is a twofold Evidence of the thing it self, and of the credibility of it, of the thing it self; And so indeed the matters of sense and reason are more evident in their own Natures to us; Of the credibility of it, and so Faith hath great evidence, as the Testimonies for such Truths are evident and clear, though the truths themselves are supernatural and highly transcending our humane capacity.