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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. When men will bring down matters of Faith to humane Reason, They will be no longer believers but Rationalists, Their Maxim in Religion is not God hath said so, but this we can demonstrate: Now it's true indeed there is nothing in Religion contrary to sound and rectified reason,1 for truth cannot be contrary to truth, but yet there are many things above our reason, Though we have sufficient testimony by faith to believe such things, yet not capacity of reason to comprehend them, insomuch that the Scripture is said to bring into captivity the understanding of man, 2 Cor. 10.5. and it's called the obedience of faith, Rom. 16.26. and therefore for a man to come to the things of Religion with the same disposition as to humane Sciences, hoping by his natural abilities to dive to the bottom of them, is to think to hold the Sea in an Oystershell, or to put the Sun under a Bushel; Why are they called Mysteries, and said to be revealed by God If Reason could find them out? Therefore lay aside all those cavils and arguments of reason where Scripture asserts these things.
1. When men will bring down matters of Faith to humane Reason, They will be no longer beleevers but Rationalists, Their Maxime in Religion is not God hath said so, but this we can demonstrate: Now it's true indeed there is nothing in Religion contrary to sound and rectified reason,1 for truth cannot be contrary to truth, but yet there are many things above our reason, Though we have sufficient testimony by faith to beleeve such things, yet not capacity of reason to comprehend them, insomuch that the Scripture is said to bring into captivity the understanding of man, 2 Cor. 10.5. and it's called the obedience of faith, Rom. 16.26. and therefore for a man to come to the things of Religion with the same disposition as to humane Sciences, hoping by his natural abilities to dive to the bottome of them, is to think to hold the Sea in an Oistershell, or to put the Sunne under a Bushell; Why are they called Mysteries, and said to be revealed by God If Reason could finde them out? Therefore lay aside all those cavils and arguments of reason where Scripture asserts these things.