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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.
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First, That the things believed bring an objective light with them. As the object that is seen brings a visibility, though faith in respect of humane reason be obscure, and supernatural Arguments be inevident, yet compared with the light in the Word, it hath much evidence: Hence the word of God is so often compared to light, and that illumination which God worketh in the mind, is partly faith, as well as any other grace. The things that are believed bring an evidence with them to the soul; as the Sun brings a visibility with it to be seen: Therefore this believing is said to be by the Word set home in the demonstration of the Spirit; and hence it is a man in some sense is passive in believing, as he is in understanding, because the object doth so powerfully work on the mind, that it cannot withstand it; Even the Arminians could not but grant, That the work of Gods Spirit upon the understanding is irresistible, though not upon the will, because they say, that is an active faculty.
First, That the things believed bring an objective light with them. As the object that is seen brings a visibility, though faith in respect of humane reason be obscure, and supernatural Arguments be inevident, yet compared with the light in the Word, it hath much evidence: Hence the word of God is so often compared to light, and that illumination which God worketh in the minde, is partly faith, as well as any other grace. The things that are believed bring an evidence with them to the soul; as the Sunne brings a visibility with it to be seen: Therefore this believing is said to be by the Word set home in the demonstration of the Spirit; and hence it is a man in some sense is passive in believing, as he is in understanding, because the object doth so powerfully work on the minde, that it cannot withstand it; Even the Arminians could not but grant, That the work of Gods Spirit upon the understanding is irresistible, though not upon the will, because they say, that is an active faculty.