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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 15: More Reasons of the Necessity of Divine Knowledge; And the Causes of Ignorance,
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4. Where gross Ignorance is of Christ, there cannot be any improving of him for all these blessed effects to which he is appointed by God. Christ is of God unto us wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, 1 Cor. 1. Of his Fullness we all receive grace for grace, Joh. 3. But the ignorant and unwise man cannot make any advantage of this, The ignorant man knoweth not the virtue and good use may be made of such herbs as grow in the field, but the wise Artist doth, Solomon asketh, Why is a price put into the hands of a Fool, seeing he knoweth not how to make use of it? If the man in the Parable that found a Pearl had not known it to be a Pearl, he would not have sold all to have bought it; So then let there be never so much fullness and sufficiency in Christ, yet he is a Fountain sealed up, and a garden enclosed to the ignorant man, and this must necessarily exclude such from heaven, because in Christ is all our salvation, whatsoever conduceth to our happiness is bound up in him, now the ignorant man not knowing this treasure must needs perish in his sins.
4. Where grosse Ignorance is of Christ, there cannot be any improving of him for all these blessed effects to which he is appointed by God. Christ is of God unto us wisedom, righteousnesse, and sanctification, 1 Cor. 1. Of his Fulnesse we all receive grace for grace, Joh. 3. But the ignorant and unwise man cannot make any advantage of this, The ignorant man knoweth not the vertue and good use may be made of such herbs as grow in the field, but the wise Artist doth, Solomon asketh, Why is a price put into the hands of a Fool, seeing he knoweth not how to make use of it? If the man in the Parable that found a Pearl had not known it to be a Pearl, he would not have sold all to have bought it; So then let there be never so much fulnesse and sufficiency in Christ, yet he is a Fountain sealed up, and a garden enclosed to the ignorant man, and this must necessarily exclude such from heaven, because in Christ is all our salvation, whatsoever conduceth to our happinesse is bound up in him, now the ignorant man not knowing this treasure must needs perish in his sinnes.