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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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3. Knowledge merely speculative will not save, because Religion lieth most in the affective part: Knowledge is desired as a prerequisite, but the power and sweetness of it lieth in the hearty embracing of what we know. Hence Divines say, our eternal happiness in heaven is initially and radically in the understanding, but formally and completely in the will: Oh then know that all the while Religion is but in thy head, and thou hast it out of books, and by hearsay, thou hast but the shadow of it, the substance and sweetness of it lieth in the cordial embracements and enjoying what we know.
3. Knowledge meerly speculative will not save, because Religion lieth most in the affective part: Knowledge is desired as a prerequisite, but the power and sweetnesse of it lieth in the hearty imbracing of what we know. Hence Divines say, our eternall happinesse in heaven is initially and radically in the understanding, but formally and compleatly in the will: Oh then know that all the while Religion is but in thy head, and thou hast it out of books, and by hearsay, thou hast but the shadow of it, the substance and sweetnesse of it lieth in the cordiall imbracements and enjoying what we know.
4. Knowledge without the effects of it is so far from saving, that it condemneth the more. He that knew his masters will and did it not, was beaten with more stripes, Luk. 12.48. What makes the condemnation of those Christ preached to greater then of the Sodomites the worst of men, but because they sinned against more knowledge?
4. Knowledge without the effects of it is so farre from saving, that it condemneth the more. He that knew his masters will and did it not, was beaten with more stripes, Luk. 12.48. What makes the condemnation of those Christ preached to greater then of the Sodomites the worst of men, but because they sinned against more knowledge?