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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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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.
3. We come to know God by the Creatures; All that consider the world aright must needs argue some divine hand made it: The Apostle Rom. 1. instanceth in this also: Men by reason and science may argue from the effect to the cause, we see one man did not make himself, but he had a Father, and so that Father, a Father, and because there cannot be an infinite progress we must stay at one first cause, only you must know this Knowledge by the world is insufficient to salvation; Therefore it's a pernicious assertion of Venator the Remonstrant, that the Heathens they had the Light as it were of the Stars, The Jews of the Moon, The Christians of the Sun, and all might be saved by their respective Lights.
3. We come to know God by the Creatures; All that consider the world aright must needs argue some divine hand made it: The Apostle Rom. 1. instanceth in this also: Men by reason and science may argue from the effect to the cause, we see one man did not make himself, but he had a Father, and so that Father, a Father, and because there cannot be an infinite progresse we must stay at one first cause, only you must know this Knowledge by the world is insufficient to salvation; Therefore it's a pernicious assertion of Venator the Remonstrant, that the Heathens they had the Light as it were of the Starres, The Jews of the Moon, The Christians of the Sunne, and all might be saved by their respective Lights.