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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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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.
Distinct. III Thirdly, The general properties of this faith are to be considered: And they are these,1
- 1The properties of it.
11. It lifteth a man up above his natural reason; It addeth many cubits to his stature. As reason directs and corrects sense, as we see in Astronomy; so doth faith direct and correct reason; As Zacheus, because of a small stature, went up into a tree to see Jesus; Thus the reason of a man being too low in it self, must ascend up to the Scriptures, that it may behold divine things, so that they wholly overthrow faith, and change the nature of it, who made it with Abailadus of old, to be imagination, or with the Socinians strength of reason. Certainly Julian and the Heathens of old confound Christian Religion upon this ground, because it was faith, it was not a science, [Greek or Hebrew], it was Julians upbraiding; now the Christians they gloried in this, and Austin to confirm the Christian under many captious doubts, saith thus, Nomini te esse fidelem, not rationalem; To bring then divine truths to reasons comprehension, is to put ⟨p. 601⟩the Sun under a bushel, or to think to fit Goliaths shoe to Zacheus his foot.
11. It lifteth a man up above his natural reason; It addeth many cubits to his stature. As reason directs and corrects sense, as we see in Astronomy; so doth faith direct and correct reason; As Zacheus, because of a small stature, went up into a tree to see Jesus; Thus the reason of a man being too low in it self, must ascend up to the Scriptures, that it may behold divine things, so that they wholly overthrow faith, and change the nature of it, who made it with Abailadus of old, to be imagination, or with the Socinians strength of reason. Certainly Julian and the Heathens of old confound Christian Religion upon this ground, because it was faith, it was not a science, , it was Julians upbraiding; now the Christians they gloried in this, and Austin to confirm the Christian under many captious doubts, saith thus, Nomini te esse fidelem, not rationalem; To bring then divine truths to reasons comprehension, is to put