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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
4. The necessity of pressing this ariseth in that there is no salvation or eternal happiness without the knowledge of God; This is Eternal Life to know thee the only true God; He would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the Truth, 1 Tim. 2.4. Oh then for people to come to the knowledge of God is more necessary then to eat or to live, or to get any earthly profit; Oh then that both Ministers and people might be more zealous in this work, for both must work together; let the Minister of God, be never so laborious, so active, yet if you are careless there cannot come any good; and if a people be willing and ready, and yet they have blind guides, still the work is not done; Therefore let both set their hands to this, Let Ministers teach, Let people hear, Let Ministers instruct, Let people come with obedient ears, otherwise though thou livest under the glorious light of the Gospel, yet thy wickedness and carelessness will make thee get no good; Thou wilt die and perish, though the Prophets have been amongst you.
4. The necessity of pressing this ariseth in that there is no salvation or eternall happinesse without the knowledge of God; This is Eternal Life to know thee the only true God; He would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the Truth, 1 Tim. 2.4. Oh then for people to come to the knowledge of God is more necessary then to eat or to live, or to get any earthly profit; Oh then that both Ministers and people might be more zealous in this work, for both must work together; let the Minister of God, be never so laborious, so active, yet if you are carelesse there cannot come any good; and if a people be willing and ready, and yet they have blinde guides, still the work is not done; Therefore let both set their hands to this, Let Ministers teach, Let people hear, Let Ministers instruct, Let people come with obedient ears, otherwise though thou livest under the glorious light of the Gospel, yet thy wickednesse and carelesnesse will make thee get no good; Thou wilt die and perish, though the Prophets have been amongst you.