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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.
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.
6. Although this Knowledge be thus necessary, 1yet how woeful is the stupidity and ignorance of most people; Who can take up Lamentations bitter enough? Who hath bowels tender enough to pity those ignorant and senseless people that are every where, who know nothing of God or Christ? we use to pity poor blind people that are not able to step one step without danger, but oh the sad and miserable estate of those who have these blind and darkened understandings! Every step they take they stumble and fall: If Paul Heb. 6. did so severely threaten those that were but in their first principles, and were not carried on to perfection: What danger remaineth for them who have not so much as attained to first principles, who have not yet laid a Foundation? yet this is the sad condition of many who though in the Land of Goshen have Egyptian darkness upon their hearts; Though baptized in the Name of Christ, yet know nothing of God or Christ, but are become like brute beasts that perish.
6. Although this Knowledge be thus necessary, 1yet how woful is the stupidity and ignorance of most people; Who can take up Lamentations bitter enough? Who hath bowels tender enough to pity those ignorant and sencelesse people that are every where, who know nothing of God or Christ? we use to pity poor blinde people that are not able to step one step without danger, but oh the sad and miserable estate of those who have these blinde and darkened understandings! Every step they take they stumble and fall: If Paul Heb. 6. did so severely threaten those that were but in their first principles, and were not carried on to perfection: What danger remaineth for them who have not so much as attained to first principles, who have not yet laid a Foundation? yet this is the sad condition of many who though in the Land of Goshen have Egyptian darknesse upon their hearts; Though baptized in the Name of Christ, yet know nothing of God or Christ, but are become like bruit beasts that perish.
- 16. The great ignorance of most to be lamented.