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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.
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 ⟨p. 101⟩testify it; Now that the knowledge of the holy Ghost is also requisite to Eternal Life appeareth, in that we are baptized into his Name, so that it's a principle and Foundation to be instructed about the holy Ghost, as well as the Father and the Sonne. We read that the Apostle doth in most of his Salutations pray for grace and peace from God the Father and the Lod Jesus Christ, yet none may from thence gather the Spirit is excluded, for 2 Cor. 1.13, 14. There is the communion of the Spirit added to the love of God and the grace of Jesus Christ.
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 doe sufficiently ⟨p. 101⟩testifie it; Now that the knowledge of the holy Ghost is also requisite to Eternal Life appeareth, in that we are baptized into his Name, so that it's a principle and Foundation to be instructed about the holy Ghost, as well as the Father and the Sonne. We reade that the Apostle doth in most of his Salutations pray for grace and peace from God the Father and the Lod Jesus Christ, yet none may from thence gather the Spirit is excluded, for 2 Cor. 1.13, 14. There is the communion of the Spirit added to the love of God and the grace of Jesus Christ.
3. You may demand, If the Knowledge of those things be enough to eternal Life, what then needs the Ministry or Preaching to a man that knoweth these: If a man have these, is he not above Ordinances and the Ministry; This indeed some have arrogantly thought.