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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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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.
4. God is manifested by the Scriptures in a common way of Light, Many men by an Historical faith believing the Scriptures, must also believe a God, for there is no such clear evidence any way as by that, and thus we may judge of most Christians, they know there is a God, they believe him to be, because the Word doth so fully affirm it.
4. God is manifested by the Scriptures in a common way of Light, Many men by an Historicall faith beleeving the Scriptures, must also beleeve a God, for there is no such clear evidence any way as by that, and thus we may judge of most Christians, they know there is a God, they beleeve him to be, because the Word doth so fully affirm it.