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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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1. They fail of saving knowledge in the integrity of parts; for although something may be known of God, yet that is very little in respect of the many things they are grossly ignorant of; for if that knowledge we have here, though by grace out of the Scripture, be so obscure, and but a child's knowledge in respect of that we shall have in heaven, what a shadow of knowledge then, rather then true knowledge, is that we have by nature? so that it faileth in many necessary particulars, it's lame in essential things.
1. They fail of saving knowledge in the integrity of parts; for although something may be known of God, yet that is very little in respect of the many things they are grossely ignorant of; for if that knowledge we have here, though by grace out of the Scripture, be so obscure, and but a childes knowledge in respect of that we shall have in heaven, what a shadow of knowledge then, rather then true knowledge, is that we have by nature? so that it faileth in many necessary particulars, it's lame in essentiall things.
2. This faileth in the purity of it. Whatsoever knowledge the greatest naturalist hath, though never so heightened, yet it's mixed with much dross, it hath many absurd and erroneous intertextures with it; so that Rom. 1. even those that professed themselves wise, are said to be become vain in their imaginations: There was great vanity and uncertainty, yea absurdities in their assertions; the Greek word the Apostle applieth to them [Greek or Hebrew], they became foolish, it's applied to salt that hath lost its seasoning, and then is it good for nothing. Thus these were deprived of all right and sound judgement.
2. This faileth in the purity of it. Whatsoever knowledge the greatest naturalist hath, though never so heightened, yet it's mixed with much drosse, it hath many absurd and erroneous intertextures with it; so that Rom. 1. even those that professed themselves wise, are said to be become vain in their imaginations: There was great vanity and uncertainty, yea absurdities in their assertions; the Greek word the Apostle applieth to them , they became foolish, it's applied to salt that hath lost its seasoning, and then is it good for nothing. Thus these were deprived of all right and sound judgement.