A77851:131
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper.…
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the general day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgess pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the generall day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgesse pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by J.H. for T. Underhill, 1658
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For if there had been any evasion, the corrupt heart of man would have sought out plausible inventions to have denied it.
This truth is clearly asserted both in the Old and New Testament, so that the Scribe ⟨p. 21⟩of the Kingdom of Heaven, may bring out of his Treasure old and new; and this is the more remarkable to have it in the Old, where the truths of Heaven and Hell are more obscurely delivered; Yea the Socinians look upon the Jews under that Legal Administration, but as so many Swine, desiring husks only, and not knowing of the Manna of the Gospel.
That this Doctrine was believed of old, yea presently after the fall, appeareth by what Jude relateth in his Epistle, vers. 14. Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh ⟨p. 22⟩with ten thousands of his Saints to render vengeance; And whether this was a real or verbal Prophecy is disputed; if verbal, where is that Prophecy? if it be lost, May any part of the Canonical Scripture be lost? And how did Jude come to know this was in Enoch's Prophecy? These are Disputes which the practical matter I intend will not suffer me to treat of: Here we have a plain Prophecy, and that almost from the beginning, That the Lord will come with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement.
That this Doctrine was believed of old, yea presently after the fall, appeareth by what Jude relateth in his Epistle, vers. 14. Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh ⟨p. 22⟩with ten thousands of his Saints to render vengeance; And whether this was a reall or verbal Prophecy is disputed; if verbal, where is that Prophecy? if it be lost, May any part of the Canonical Scripture be lost? And how did Jude come to know this was in Enoch's Prophecy? These are Disputes which the practical matter I intend will not suffer me to treat of: Here we have a plain Prophecy, and that almost from the beginning, That the Lord will come with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement.