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Forty sermons upon several occasions by the late reverend and learned Anthony Tuckney ... sometimes master of Emmanuel and St. John's Colledge (successively) and Regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, published according to his own copies his son Jonathan Tuckney ...; Sermons. Selections
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Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.
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other did Judge 9. 48. Look on me and do likewise 2. A second benefit of this knowledge is that it 's a transforming knowledge 2 Cor. 3. 18. whilst we are looking into the glass we are changed into the image Intellectus fit idem cum objecto The Eye and man is made like that he looks on Here as in the story of the brazen serpent a look heals and the man with Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. 34 36. ceaseth to be a beast when he comes to his understanding This knowledge and wisdom joins practice with notion and moral vertues with intellectual is not it self only Heavenly and spiritual Col. 1. 9. pure and peaceable Jam. 3. 17. but which is more makes us so But so doth no other knowledge I mean the knowledge of no other things or some other kind of knowledge of Jesus Christ For the knowledge of other things like the Glow-worm hath more light than heat in it as he said of the Philosophers Books animum non dant quia non habent Solomon's experience in this kind told him that what was crooked could not this way be made straight and Paul tells us Rom. 1. 21 22. c. how brutish the most knowing Heathens had then proved as after-ages and Authors do hold forth their greatest Philosophers defiled with foulest Lusts Solen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Plutarchum Item Zeno apud Diogenem Laertium Lactant l. 3. c. 20. not Socrates himself exempted Per canem anserem dejerare and gallum Aesculapio were none of his Beauties and others matter of his foulest blemishes The Apostle 1 Tim. 6. 9. calls them foolish lusts but yet such as the ablest of those Sons of wisdom were dishonoured and defiled with And for others who by the preaching of the Gospel come to some kind of knowledge of Christ truly oft-times the light they The Gnosticks would be so called from their pretended greater knowledge in the things of God but so filthy as that they got a more proper name of Borboritae Augustin de haeres 6. have is so far from directing them in the way that by it they take advantage to run the more out of it like them 2 Pet. 2. 21 22. that proved Dogs and Swine for filth and rage even after the knowledge of the ways of righteousness none using to be more loathsomly filthy or desperately mad against Christ than they who have been enlightned to see only so much of Christ as to make their soar eyes smart and themselves fret and blaspheme Those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. 6. 4. commit that irrecoverable sin and the Devil is a Serpent as well for his venom as his subtilty Very knowing men yet known for many notorious miscarriages their Lusts rising up against their Consciences and their practice quite crossing their light have been no great strangers either in the World or in the Churches of Christ 3. In particular this is an humbling knowledge which to be said of any other knowledge would be little less than contradictio in adjecto for Paul saith Knowledge puffs up 1 Cor. 8. 1. who himself had a prick in the flesh to prick that Bladder that it might not swell with abundance of Revelations 2 Cor. 12. 7. Other things as profits pleasures and the like are too low for a wise man to stand on tip-toes upon He accounts it but childish for any to account himself fine for such gayes and brouches yea but knowledge and learning is a more Divine spark and hath in it he thinks that which is worth being proud of and out of that pride oft-times accounts Christ and his Ordinances and ways foolishness 1 Cor. 1. 23. But the more that thou savingly knowest Christ the better thou wilt know thy self and that I am sure will ever be with better thoughts of him and worse of thy self as Job when he seeth God he abhors himself Cap. 42. 4 5. Peter knowing it was the Lord that was present casts himself down into the Sea John 21. 7. and the Saints and Angels in Heaven whilst they have nearest access and fullest view stand at a most reverential distance 4. Fourthly and last of all which is the upshot of all this is a saving knowledge that makes us wise to salvation 2 Tim. 3. 15. 1. That makes us pleasing to God Hebr. 11. 6. and justifieth us before God Isa 53. 11. which other learning and knowledge not sanctified and subdued by this comes cross to but always falls short of for whatever it may to others yet as our Apostle saith of meat 1 Cor. 8. 8. it commendeth us not to God Non enim ab eo peritia sed fides exigitur It may indeed make our faces shine more bright before men Eccles 8. 1. but we are never the more amiable for it in God's Eye if he do not look upon us in the face of Jesus Christ and therefore it is that whilst to babes and children his Son is revealed Matth. 11. 25. there are but few of these great wise men that are called unto this marvellous light 1 Cor. 1. 26. But on the contrary rather as they by reason of their pride are usually at odds with him so he who useth to resist the proud hath a controversie especially with them with the wise men of Edom. Obad. v. 7 8. and accordingly is wont purposely to set himself to befool such Ahitophels in their Counsels and to take such Foxes in their own craftiness that so he may cast down those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. that he may bring all into Captivity to the obedience of Christ 2. But to end all seeing God himself Deut. 32. 29. accounts it the highest point of wisdom to consider the latter end herein above all appears most eminently this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the supereminency of this saving knowledge of Christ That it layeth in for death and provideth for eternity Now in Death all thy other learning which thou hast spent so much time and pains for is quite lost Thy bark is split in which all thy treasure was stowed nor is there more treasure sunk in the Sea than there is learning buried in some great Scholars Graves which is a great loss to the Church State nay it may be to the whole World and yet may be the greatest to themselves Whatever their Notes may do to others such Notions will not then help themselves so that in case by that time they have got no better learning the hard Students Candle which was wont to out-watch the longest night will grow dim in that Evening and burn blew in that damp yea and quite go out in that darkness And so notwithstanding all those former sparks more precious than those of Diamonds he may then lie down with sorrow Isa 50. 11. with this Motto on his Study-Door Qualis artifex pereo the knowing man not then knowing what will become of his Soul Quos nunc abibis in locos or if he do the