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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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Lastly, There is a knowledge of God in a practical obedient way, so to know him as to fear him, to obey his Commandments, to walk humbly before him,1 and to depend upon him, and this is the manifestation or knowledge the truly godly only have, and the number of these is very few, so that if you set aside those who know God only upon a natural conscience, or by education, or by a general historical Faith: The residue who know him by special illumination and sanctification, are like the gleaning after harvest, so that we may hence conclude that whatsoever parts, learning, understanding, men have in Religion, yet till inwardly sanctified they know not God; They are wholly estranged from him, They live without God in the world, Eph. 2. God is not in their thoughts, in their hearts, neither have they any enjoyment of him, Oh that we could make every Auditor sensible of this, I live in the world, I know much, I have great acquaintance, but yet am a stranger to God.
Lastly, There is a knowledge of God in a practicall obedient way, so to know him as to fear him, to obey his Commandments, to walk humbly before him,1 and to depend upon him, and this is the manifestation or knowledge the truly godly only have, and the number of these is very few, so that if you set aside those who know God only upon a natural conscience, or by education, or by a general historical Faith: The residue who know him by speciall illumination and sanctification, are like the gleaning after harvest, so that we may hence conclude that whatsoever parts, learning, understanding, men have in Religion, yet till inwardly sanctified they know not God; They are wholly estranged from him, They live without God in the world, Eph. 2. God is not in their thoughts, in their hearts, neither have they any enjoyment of him, Oh that we could make every Auditor sensible of this, I live in the world, I know much, I have great acquaintance, but yet am a stranger to God.
- 1Of true saving knowledge peculiar to the godly.