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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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1Fourthly, Obedience must have a command, from the fullness and sufficiency of the Scripture; It's a perfect Rule, Whosoever walketh according to this Rule; Gal. 6.16. and David commends it for a Lantern and Light to his feet, Psal. 119. So that if our obedience might run out in such things where there is no word for it, the Word would not be an adequate Rule, It would be too narrow, and then if once you grant a Rule besides that, you go in infinitum, yea, we fall into manifest contradictions, for how many times doth one mans spirit think that best which is contrary to another mans; How comes that opposition in matter of Religion, but that the word is not made the Rule, but either there are reasons or lusts, or temporal interests, so that it's necessary we have the Word for obedience, else the Enthusiastical Revelations and Popish Traditions they will both plead a good Title for acceptableness with God.
1Fourthly, Obedience must have a command, from the fulness and sufficiency of the Scripture; It's a perfect Rule, Whosoever walketh according to this Rule; Gal. 6.16. and David commends it for a Lanthorn and Light to his feet, Psal. 119. So that if our obedience might run out in such things where there is no word for it, the Word would not be an adequate Rule, It would be too narrow, and then if once you grant a Rule besides that, you go in infinitum, yea, we fall into manifest contradictions, for how many times doth one mans spirit think that best which is contrary to another mans; How comes that opposition in matter of Religion, but that the word is not made the Rule, but either there are reasons or lusts, or temporal interests, so that it's necessary we have the Word for obedience, else the Enthusiastical Revelations and Popish Traditions they will both pleade a good Title for acceptableness with God.
- 1IV. From the fullness of the Scripture.