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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.
Sermon 14: The Necessity of Divine Knowledge, And Arraignment of Ignorance.
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.
IN the Verse before we had the great privilege vouchsafed, viz. eternal Life, and the Subject to whom, viz. Those that are given to Christ In this Verse our Saviour informeth of the manner or way how we may come to it; For to speak of eternal life and not direct to the enjoying of it, is to see Canaan, but to want a pillar of fire to guide to it, and although our Saviour had described such as should inherit eternal life, yet because it's a secret written in Gods Book, which no man can read, who are given by the ⟨p. 73⟩Father to Christ, and who not; Therefore it's necessary we should be told the way, and that is done in the Text.
IN the Verse before we had the great priviledge vouchsafed, viz. eternall Life, and the Subject to whom, viz. Those that are given to Christ In this Verse our Saviour informeth of the manner or way how we may come to it; For to speak of eternal life and not direct to the enjoying of it, is to see Canaan, but to want a pillar of fire to guide to it, and although our Saviour had described such as should inherit eternal life, yet because it's a secret written in Gods Book, which no man can reade, who are given by the ⟨p. 73⟩Father to Christ, and who not; Therefore it's necessary we should be told the way, and that is done in the Text.
In the words you have then affirmed the way to this happiness, This is eternal life, this will make you have eternal life; None can ever attain it that take not this course, for [Greek or Hebrew] may either relate to [Greek or Hebrew], or else after the manner of the Hebrews be put absolutely for [Greek or Hebrew]; This phrase is like John 12.58.
In the words you have then affirmed the way to this happinesse, This is eternal life, this will make you have eternal life; None can ever attain it that take not this course, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 may either relate to , or else after the manner of the Hebrews be put absolutely for ; This phrase is like John 12.58.