CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

JOH. 17.3. And this is Eternal Life to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

The Doctrine observed was, that without the knowledge of God and Christ there cannot be any eternal life obtained; The first ground or reason of this was from those several duties that are required of us towards God, which without some knowledge could never be acceptably performed.

THe Doctrine observed was, that without the knowledge of God and Christ there cannot be any eternal life obtained; The first ground or reason of this was from those several duties that are required of us towards God, which without some knowledge could never be acceptably performed.

¹The second ground shall be from those duties we owe to Christ; And herein damnable ignorance will far sooner possess us then in the former, for there are some common notions and dictates about a god, which made Tertullian cry out, O animam naturaliter Christianam; But in respect of Christ, we have not the least implanted notion about him, so that the doctrine of Christ is far more supernatural then that about God, for the hoti quod si Deus is, I discovered by natural light, but who he is, and how to be worshipped this is merely supernatural, but concerning Christ both the quod sit and the quid sit: That there is a Christ, and what he is are both by divine manifestation; So that whatsoever we have of Christ, it must only be by the Revelation of God, and in this respect though most people may have some general apprehensions about God, yet about Christ they have none at all unless by hearsay: It behoveth us therefore who are called Christians to know what that Christ is whom we worship, and trust in for salvation, and the great ignorance of Christ is present death; He is the door, he is the truth, the way, and the life,