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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. By inward light of a natural conscience, There are inbred notions and dictates about a God, which all the wicked affections and lusts of men cannot wholly obscure, as the blackest clouds cannot quite darken the Sun; The Apostle Rom. 1. saith, God hath manifested this in them; There is then a natural manifestation of God in the consciences of men, whereby there is an horror and trembling upon them upon the committing of some evil, especially when the stroke of death is upon them: Oh the quakings, oh the confusions that are sometimes upon men, what will become of them? what shall they do? All this cometh from some general knowledge of a God.
1. By inward light of a natural conscience, There are imbred notions and dictates about a God, which all the wicked affections and lusts of men cannot wholly obscure, as the blackest clouds cannot quite darken the Sunne; The Apostle Rom. 1. saith, God hath manifested this in them; There is then a natural manifestation of God in the consciences of men, whereby there is an horrour and trembling upon them upon the committing of some evil, especially when the stroak of death is upon them: Oh the quakings, oh the confusions that are sometimes upon men, what will become of them? what shall they do? All this cometh from some generall knowledge of a God.
2. Men come to some knowledge of a God by tradition, education, and hearsay; There being no Nation so fierce and barbarous, but have told their Children of a God, and the Socinians who deny any inward light of nature about a God, do make this the only ground of such an apprehension, an universal tradition that is upon all; Now although this consent of all Nations be a great Testimony, yet the other is not to be excluded: If then all do acknowledge that there is a God, though there be different Religions, different opinions, ⟨p. 163⟩yet both Heathen, Turk, Jew and Christian agree in this, the more inexcusable will all wicked men be who live in rebellion and disobedience to him.