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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.
To open this Consider,
1It's first Their duty, So that they will be found guilty of high crimes if they do otherwise; To mint false coin, or to forge a mans will are heinous faults amongst men; Thine is greater for thou counterfeitest Gods Truth, yea, thou putst a lye upon God, thou attributest that to him which belongeth to thy folly: The Apostle saith, If it be a mans will, or Covenant, none may add to it or disannul it, Gal. 3.15. how much rather should this be so in Gods Word? Oh then consider, thou wilt be found guilty of high Treason against God, if thou speakest any thing but his Truth.
1It's first Their duty, So that they will be found guilty of high crimes if they doe otherwise; To mint false coin, or to forge a mans will are hainous faults amongst men; Thine is greater for thou counterfeitest Gods Truth, yea, thou putst a lye upon God, thou attributest that to him which belongeth to thy folly: The Apostle saith, If it be a mans will, or Covenant, none may adde to it or disanull it, Gal. 3.15. how much rather should this be so in Gods Word? Oh then consider, thou wilt be found guilty of high Treason against God, if thou speakest any thing but his Truth.
- 11. It's their duty.
12. As it's our duty, so it's our glory; It's the greatest honour we are capable of, to have such divine Mysteries committed to us, the Truths of God have only Majesty in them, they only convince the Conscience and awe it; They only breed reverence and admiration, so that although humane Learning and parts have a subservient excellency, yet if the Word of God and the Truth of God be not principal, there is no mastering of the Conscience and captivating of it: Hence are those commands, to attend to their doctrine,