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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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And first, Because knowledge in it self is only a perfection in the understanding, and seeing that the whole heart is fully corrupted, it must be universally healed, else there cannot be any salvation. I pray God ye be sanctified throughout in spirit, soul and body, 1 Thess. 5.23. Yea this knowledge is but a moral perfection, not a gracious: As we see in the devils, who have great abilities in their understanding: And hence it is that a man may be very knowing and yet very vicious, because this doth only dispel ignorance from the mind, it doth not sanctify the heart and affections to love and delight in what is good: Knowledge is requisite to bring in grace, yet knowledge merely is not grace: So that howsoever it be a necessary duty to get knowledge, yet when that is obtained there is a greater work behind in the cleansing and purifying of the heart. Praevolat intellectus, sed tardus sequitur affectus, with the eye we may discern many miles off in a moment, but our feet cannot so quickly go thither.
And first, Because knowledge in it self is only a perfection in the understanding, and seeing that the whole heart is fully corrupted, it must be universally healed, else there cannot be any salvation. I pray God ye be sanctified throughout in spirit, soul and body, 1 Thess. 5.23. Yea this knowledge is but a morall perfection, not a gracious: As we see in the devils, who have great abilities in their understanding: And hence it is that a man may be very knowing and yet very vicious, because this doth only dispell ignorance from the minde, it doth not sanctifie the heart and affections to love and delight in what is good: Knowledge is requisite to bring in grace, yet knowledge meerly is not grace: So that howsoever it be a necessary duty to get knowledge, yet when that is obtained there is a greater work behinde in the cleansing and purifying of the heart. Praevolat intellectus, sed tardus sequitur affectus, with the eye we may discern many miles off in a moment, but our feet cannot so quickly go thither.