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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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1Let it therefore be a Use of importunate Exhortation to follow you as closely as that Widow did the Judge, that if nothing else importunity might prevail with you, Let the ignorant pray that they may receive their sight, Let them not give over day and night those means that may help them, What though thou canst say, I am no thief, no adulterer, no unclean person, yet if ignorant, thou art upon the brink of hell, and so you that are Parents and Masters, bring up your Inferiors in the true knowledge and fear of God; It's said of Constantine, who was truly great in this, that he would have his whole Court gathered together, and the Scriptures read to them, with Instructions from it to them; What you see me do at the Church, that let the Master of the Family do at home, said Austin; Let your Families be Christs School; Thou wouldst not have a Servant that knoweth not how to do his proper employment, much less then shouldst thou have one that knoweth not his Christianity; Now there are many pregnant arguments to enforce this duty.
1Let it therefore be a Use of importunate Exhortation to follow you as closely as that Widow did the Judge, that if nothing else importunity might prevail with you, Let the ignorant pray that they may receive their sight, Let them not give over day and night those means that may help them, What though thou canst say, I am no thief, no adulterer, no unclean person, yet if ignorant, thou art upon the brink of hell, and so you that are Parents and Masters, bring up your Inferiors in the true knowledge and fear of God; It's said of Constantine, who was truly great in this, that he would have his whole Court gathered together, and the Scriptures read to them, with Instructions from it to them; What you see me do at the Church, that let the Master of the Family do at home, said Austin; Let your Families be Christs School; Thou wouldst not have a Servant that knoweth not how to do his proper emploiment, much lesse then shouldst thou have one that knoweth not his Christianity; Now there are many pregnant arguments to enforce this duty.
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