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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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6. Then is our knowledge saving, when it makes us glorify God as God, giving the praise of all things to him, Rom. 1. This the Apostle taxeth the Gentiles withal, that though they had a knowledge of God by the creatures, yet they did not glorify him according to this knowledge, but they made sensible Images of him, and worshipped wood and stone, the work of mens hands, They did not glorify him as God; there is a great deal in that, To glorify God as God, is so to honour him, as to give him the best and the supremacy in all things: When our hearts are as much upon the creature as God, or when we would serve God and Mammon, this is not to glorify God as God: When we do any thing not principally and chiefly for God, we do not honour him as a God. These are the inward effects of knowledge.
6. Then is our knowledge saving, when it makes us glorifie God as God, giving the praise of all things to him, Rom. 1. This the Apostle taxeth the Gentiles withall, that though they had a knowledge of God by the creatures, yet they did not glorifie him according to this knowledge, but they made sensible Images of him, and worshipped wood and stone, the work of mens hands, They did not glorifie him as God; there is a great deal in that, To glorifie God as God, is so to honour him, as to give him the best and the supremacy in all things: When our hearts are as much upon the creature as God, or when we would serve God and Mamon, this is not to glorifie God as God: When we do any thing not principally and chiefly for God, we do not honour him as a God. These are the inward effects of knowledge.
1Now there are outward effects which will necessarily follow true and saving knowledge, even as the beams of the Sun do the Sun, though they are not called external as opposite to internal, no, they both go together; for they that know God, know him to be a Spirit, and that he must be worshipped in Spirit and truth, that all outward duties done without the heart, are but a mere hypocrisy; so that these outward effects are to be taken as streams coming from a full and precious fountain within, and they are such as these.