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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.
1Now let us consider why some measure of knowledge about God and Christ is necessary to salvation.
- 1Reasons. Why knowledge is so necessary to Salvation.
And First, In respect of the Object it self, there are many duties God and Christ require of us, which we are never able to perform without some knowledge of them. I grant that as the Stars do differ in their glory and light, so one man may far exceed another in knowledge,1 yea, God doth not require so much of some as he doth of others, such a degree of knowledge will God accept of in some, which he will not in others, so that according to the means and opportunities of knowledge more or less is required: We grant also some may know more then they can express through some impediments or other, but there is none can be saved who lay not in some measure a competent knowledge in Christianity, because there are several duties required, which he that knoweth nothing of God cannot perform acceptably.
And First, In respect of the Object it self, there are many duties God and Christ require of us, which we are never able to perform without some knowledge of them. I grant that as the Starres do differ in their glory and light, so one man may farre exceed another in knowledge,1 yea, God doth not require so much of some as he doth of others, such a degree of knowledge will God accept of in some, which he will not in others, so that according to the means and opportunities of knowledge more or lesse is required: We grant also some may know more then they can expresse through some impediments or other, but there is none can be saved who lay not in some measure a competent knowledge in Christianity, because there are severall duties required, which he that knoweth nothing of God cannot perform acceptably.