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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 28: Proveth, That the world was not from Eternity, but had its beginning in time; And reduc…
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As in the first place, If it had been from Eternity so many thousands and thousands years would have been past, that we should have had some relics at least of some things done so long ago; whereas it's observed by the learned that even in all the heathen Antiquities, though they brag much yet they record nothing, that was done before the Flood; The utmost of their antiquity reacheth but to persons and things that were done since the Flood, and therefore Moses his History hath the most antiquity in it, Now if the world had been so many millions of years before, how comes there to be such a deep silence of all things done formerly, as for that of the Egyptians who speak of things done an hundred thousand years ago; Besides the fabulousness of that people, it's thought they accounted a year, but for a month, because the course of the Sun was not perfectly understood.
As in the first place, If it had been from Eternity so many thousands and thousands years would have been past, that we should have had some reliques at least of some things done so long ago; whereas it's observed by the learned that even in all the heathen Antiquities, though they brag much yet they record nothing, that was done before the Floud; The utmost of their antiquity reacheth but to persons and things that were done since the Floud, and therefore Moses his History hath the most antiquity in it, Now if the world had been so many millions of years before, how comes there to be such a deep silence of all things done formerly, as for that of the Aegyptians who speak of things done an hundred thousand years agoe; Besides the fabulousnesse of that people, it's thought they accounted a year, but for a moneth, because the course of the Sun was not perfectly understood.
2. This may convince the world had a beginning, because it could not make it self, and God was not a natural Agent necessitated to make it; For upon these two supposed grounds it might be thought, that the world had no beginning, and as for making it self that's plain, it could not, no more then an house, or a musical Instrument, or a Book; Hence it is that the Apostle Rom. 1