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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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1Yet 2. This inbred knowledge may be actuated and perfected by the contemplation of the Creatures, as Rom. 1. None that observeth such a curious Fabric as the world is, can conclude it made it self, but it had some Creator; Even as when a man heareth curious Music upon some Musical Instrument, every one will conclude there is some artificial hand playing upon it, that it doth not move it self: Thus the Heathens have many expressions concerning a God, whom they discovered no other way but by the creatures, although this was accompanied with some hesitancy and doubting; And their light was like that of the Moon and Stars, yea, not so much, for it was not able to direct them in any manner acceptable to him: Hence it is that the Scripture speaks of them as without God, Eph. 2. and such as know not God.
1Yet 2. This imbred knowledge may be actuated and perfected by the contemplation of the Creatures, as Rom. 1. None that observeth such a curious Fabrick as the world is, can conclude it made it self, but it had some Creator; Even as when a man heareth curious Musick upon some Musical Instrument, every one will conclude there is some artificiall hand playing upon it, that it doth not move it self: Thus the Heathens have many expressions concerning a God, whom they discovered no other way but by the creatures, although this was accompanied with some hesitancy and doubting; And their light was like that of the Moon and Stars, yea, not so much, for it was not able to direct them in any manner acceptable to him: Hence it is that the Scripture speaks of them as without God, Eph. 2. and such as know not God.
- 12. Inbred knowledge may be increased by the contemplation of the creature.2. Imbred knowledge may be encreased by the contemplation of the creature.