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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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Sermon 14: The Necessity of Divine Knowledge, And Arraignment of Ignorance.
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In the second place there is the object which is twofold, 1. The only true God. 2. Jesus Christ That is both God in respect of his nature and attributes, oppositely to those Heathens who worshipped Idols; and 2. Jesus Christ, that is opposite to the Jews, who knew the true God but not Christ, and withal that the knowing of the true God as a Creator by the creatures is nothing at all without the latter: It must be, as he is Father in Christ, so that hereby is implied that the knowing of God absolutely is not saving, it must be relatively in the glorious dispensation and mystery which is by Jesus Christ.
In the second place there is the object which is twofold, 1. The only true God. 2. Jesus Christ That is both God in respect of his nature and attributes, oppositely to those Heathens who worshiped Idols; and 2. Jesus Christ, that is opposite to the Jews, who knew the true God but not Christ, and withall that the knowing of the true God as a Creator by the creatures is nothing at all without the latter: It must be, as he is Father in Christ, so that hereby is implied that the knowing of God absolutely is not saving, it must be relatively in the glorious dispensation and mystery which is by Jesus Christ.
I shall not explain further on this, only remove an Argument which the Arians and Socinians use to triumph in from this Text as their Achilles;1 Oh say they here it's plain; That Christ is not a true God, because they are distinguished; God is the only true God, and therefore Christ is not; But this is absurd, That the only true God is opposed to Idols and to the heathenish gods which were worshipped by them, in which sense he is sometimes called The Holy One of Israel, and not to Christ, for if he were not God likewise how could eternal life be said to be both in knowing of God and Christ, and that Christ is truly God, take instead of many, two undeniable places, Rom. 9.5. Of whom after the flesh came Christ, who is over all God blessed for evermore; And the other which is an excellent Comment upon this place,