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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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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.
1That God is only truly and properly known by the godly; Let men have never such parts, knowledge, or understanding, and that in the Scriptures and Divinity, yet none know God, God is not manifested to any but to the godly; This may seem Paradoxical and incredible, but yet the Scripture is very clear, at v. 25. The world hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known thou hast sent me: Hence Joh. 14.21. you may see Christs manifesting of himself is a privilege bestowed only upon those that love God, He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will manifest my self to him: This doth so affect one of the Disciples, that out of a sense of Gods great goodness and grace to them rather then the world, he saith, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self to us rather then the world; What are we more then others; The world heard Christ preached, They saw his Miracles, but Christ was not manifested to them. Christ likewise Joh. 8.55. telleth the Pharisees who believed the Scriptures, and acknowledged one God Creator of the world, yea, and said, God was their God, that they did not know God; so that this truth will stand good, that men may have much knowledge in the Scriptures in Religion, and yet no• know God.
1That God is only truely and properly known by the godly; Let men have never such parts, knowledge, or understanding, and that in the Scriptures and Divinity, yet none know God, God is not manifested to any but to the godly; This may seem Paradoxall and incredible, but yet the Scripture is very clear, at v. 25. The world hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known thou hast sent me: Hence Joh. 14.21. you may see Christs manifesting of himself is a priviledge bestowed only upon those that love God, He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will manifest my self to him: This doth so affect one of the Disciples, that out of a sence of Gods great goodnesse and grace to them rather then the world, he saith, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self to us rather then the world; What are we more then others; The world heard Christ preached, They saw his Miracles, but Christ was not manifested to them. Christ likewise