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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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1That knowledge which brings to eternal life, ought to be accompanied with the true and proper effects of it. This is grounded upon the use of the word know, which doth denote the affectus and effectui concomitatis, frequently in Scripture; and that this knowledge must be so here, is plain by that of our Saviour, If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them, John 13.17. Therefore mere knowledge without doing, is not happiness: And this we see the very Heathens could pitch upon, that happiness did not consist in a speculative knowledge, but in virtuous actions: Yea Aristotle observed, that a profane dissolute life did not corrupt speculative sciences, as Geometry and the Mathematics, but it would immediately moral habits: So then, Knowledge with affections and good effects is that which leadeth to eternal life. Hence wicked men are many times said not to know God, because though they have never so much speculative understanding, yet because by their lives and ungodly ways they dishonour him, therefore they are said not to know him.
1That knowledge which brings to eternal life, ought to be accompanied with the true and proper effects of it. This is grounded upon the use of the word know, which doth denote the affectus and effectui concomitatis, frequently in Scripture; and that this knowledge must be so here, is plain by that of our Saviour, If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them, John 13.17. Therefore meer knowledge without doing, is not happinesse: And this we see the very Heathens could pitch upon, that happinesse did not consist in a speculative knowledge, but in virtuous actions: Yea Aristotle observed, that a prophane dissolute life did not corrupt speculative sciences, as Geometry and the Mathematicks, but it would immediately morall habits: So then, Knowledge with affections and good effects is that which leadeth to eternall life. Hence wicked men are many times said not to know God, because though they have never so much speculative understanding, yet because by their lives and ungodly waies they dishonour him, therefore they are said not to know him.
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