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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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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, 1 Joh. 5.20. We are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ; This is the true God, and eternal life; and then addeth, Keep your selves from Idols; So that God the Father is the true God and Christ the Son is the true God, and all other made gods are Idols.
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 worshiped by them, in which sence 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, 1 Joh. 5.20. We are in him that is true, even in his Sonne Jesus Christ; This is the true God, and eternal life; and then addeth, Keep your selves from Idols; So that God the Father is the true God and Christ the Son is the true God, and all other made gods are Idols.