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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 15: More Reasons of the Necessity of Divine Knowledge; And the Causes 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.
External are twofold, 1. A negligent, ignorant, and careless Ministry; For seeing the Ministry is appointed to be a light,1 to be a guide, if that be not light, then all the people must be darkness; If they are not salt the people have no seasoning; An Idol-Shepherd makes Idol-sheep; This God often complaineth of, and Christ also, when he saith, The blind lead the blind, Mat. 15.14. and that some took away the Key of knowledge.
External are twofold, 1. A negligent, ignorant, and carelesse Ministry; For seeing the Ministry is appointed to be a light,1 to be a guide, if that be not light, then all the people must be darknesse; If they are not salt the people have no seasoning; An Idol-Shepherd makes Idol-sheep; This God often complaineth of, and Christ also, when he saith, The blinde leade the blinde, Mat. 15.14. and that some took away the Key of knowledge.
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And 2. Negligence of Parents and Masters, All Governors who have Inferiors under them, they are to teach the principles of knowledge, Parents are often required to do it, and truly hence is the Original of all Ignorance, even the rudeness and wicked orders that are in Families: There is no praying, no catechizing, no instructing, and when these are Nurseries of blindness and impiety, what good can be expected, Oh that Parents and Masters would remember how much God requireth of them in this particular; It was the commendation God gave Abraham, that he would teach his Family, and make them worship him,