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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.
4. Though the true knowledge of God and Christ is to be had in the Church, 1yet all true knowledge that is most plentiful and exact, is not presently saving knowledge; Therefore in the Text when eternal life is said to be in knowing of God, and Christ, that is, with the due concomitants and genuine effects thereof, when we so know as that it is an acknowledgement of the truth after godliness, Tit. 1. This is good to be considered by those who have obtained some good measure of knowledge, how apt are men to be puffed up by it, They swell with this wind, as those in antiquity that were called Gnostics, because of the knowledge they gloried in, but this light may be and often is without any heat at all: Their heads are better then their hearts or their hands, so that they are a kind of a spiritual Monster, A mans head above, but brute beasts below, look then that with thy knowledge there be also a good conscience and a godly life, otherwise thy knowledge will serve but to make hell hotter for thee.
4. Though the true knowledge of God and Christ is to be had in the Church, 1yet all true knowledge that is most plentiful and exact, is not presently saving knowledge; Therfore in the Text when eternal life is said to be in knowing of God, and Christ, that is, with the due concomitants and genuine effects thereof, when we so know as that it is an acknowledgement of the truth after godliness, Tit. 1. This is good to be considered by those who have obtained some good measure of knowledge, how apt are men to be puffed up by it, They swell with this winde, as those in antiquity that were called Gnosticks, because of the knowledge they gloried in, but this light may be and often is without any heat at all: Their heads are better then their hearts or their hands, so that they are a kinde of a spiritual Monster, A mans head above, but bruit beasts below, look then that with thy knowledge there be also a good conscience and a godly life, otherwise thy knowledge will serve but to make hell hotter for thee.
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