A53736:26
A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…
A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the exceptions of William Sherlock, rector of St. George Buttolph-Lane / by the author of the said discourse, John Owen.
London: printed for N. Ponder, 1674
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Whereas therefore by an Acquaintance with the Person of Christ, it is undeniably evident; that I intended nothing but that Knowledge of Christ which it is the Duty of every Christian to labour after, no other but what is revealed, declared and delivered in the Scripture, as almost every Page of my Book doth manifest where I treat of these things: I do here again with the good Leave of this Author assert, that this knowledge of Christ is very necessary unto Christians, and the Fountain of all Saving Knowledge whatever. And as he may if he please review the Honesty and Truth of that Passage pag. 38. So that our Acquaintance with Christ's Person in this Mans Divinity signifies such a Knowledge of what Christ is, hath done and suffered for Us, from whence we may learn those greater, deeper, and more Saving Mysteries of the Gospel, which Christ hath not expressly revealed to Us; So I will not so far suspect the Christianity of them with whom we have to do, as to think it necessary ⟨p. 32⟩to confirm by Texts of Scripture either of these assertions, which whoever denies is an open Apostate from the Gospel.
Whereas therefore by an Acquaintance with the Person of Christ, it is undeniably evident; that I intended nothing but that Knowledg of Christ which it is the Duty of every Christian to labour after, no other but what is revealed, declared and delivered in the Scripture, as almost every Page of my Book doth manifest where I treat of these things: I do here again with the good Leave of this Author assert, that this knowledge of Christ is very necessary unto Christians, and the Fountain of all Saving Knowledg whatever. And as he may if he please review the Honesty and Truth of that Passage pag. 38. So that our Acquaintance with Christ's Person in this Mans Divinity signifies such a Knowledg of what Christ is, hath done and suffered for Us, from whence we may learn those greater, deeper, and more Saving Mysteries of the Gospel, which Christ hath not expresly revealed to Us; So I will not so far suspect the Christianity of them with whom we have to do, as to think it necessary ⟨p. 32⟩to confirm by Texts of Scripture either of these assertions, which whoever denies is an open Apostate from the Gospel.