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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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Sermon 18: The Necessity of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus as well as of God the Father.
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11. Doth not this exclude all that lived under the Old Testament dispensation from Salvation? For howsoever they might know the true God, yet was there any discovery or Knowledge of Christ in those days, This is so great a matter that some have looked upon all the Jews as knowing only temporal promises; That they knew nothing of heaven but an earthly Canaan was their heaven: That they had no Knowledge of Christ but thought by the blood of Sacrifices to appease God:
11. Doth not this exclude all that lived under the Old Testament dispensation from Salvation? For howsoever they might know the true God, yet was there any discovery or Knowledge of Christ in those daies, This is so great a matter that some have looked upon all the Jews as knowing only temporall promises; That they knew nothing of heaven but an earthly Canaan was their heaven: That they had no Knowledge of Christ but thought by the bloud of Sacrifices to appease God:
- 1Obj.
1But to answer this: 1. No doubt but the common and ordinary sort of them was greatly ignorant of Christ, and therefore rested in their Sacrifices, and the knowledge of the Law, as the only thing that made them acceptable; This is plain by the Apostles Arguments in his Epistle to the Galatians, and we see by the Prophets they so relied upon these external services, that they thought themselves beloved of God, though abounding in all wickedness: And no wonder they did so, for under the Gospel how many rest on their duties, and have no faith in Christ.
1But to answer this: 1. No doubt but the common and ordinary sort of them was greatly ignorant of Christ, and therefore rested in their Sacrifices, and the knowledge of the Law, as the only thing that made them acceptable; This is plain by the Apostles Arguments in his Epistle to the Galatians, and we see by the Prophets they so relied upon these externall services, that they thought themselves beloved of God, though abounding in all wickednesse: And no wonder they did so, for under the Gospel how many rest on their duties, and have no faith in Christ.