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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 18: The Necessity of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus as well as of God the Father.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
12. It may be demanded, why the Knowledge of the holy Ghost is not there said to be Eternal Life, as well as of the Father and the Son, for without the Spirit of God efficiently enabling us, we cannot do any holy duty as well as without Christs merits, we cannot be accepted: Christ is the meritorious cause, and the Spirit of God the applying cause.
- 1Obj.
1To this we may say, that the Knowledge of the Spirit is necessarily implied in the Knowledge of Christ; For he was in respect of his humane nature conceived by the holy Ghost, when he was to leave his Apostles bodily, he promiseth his Spirit to supply his presence, So that none can know Christ as a Mediator, that doth not also know the holy Ghost: Hence be is called, the Spirit of Christ.
1To this we may say, that the Knowledge of the Spirit is necessarily implied in the Knowledge of Christ; For he was in respect of his humane nature conceived by the holy Ghost, when he was to leave his Apostles bodily, he promiseth his Spirit to supply his presence, So that none can know Christ as a Mediatour, that doth not also know the holy Ghost: Hence be is called, the Spirit of Christ.
- 1Answ.
And in the 2d place we may say it's not necessary that this Text should speak of all things necessary to Salvation, It's enough that other places do sufficiently