Sermon XCI. [CXLI. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” 1. Amongst other things, when the Holy Gospel was being read, ye heard what the Lord Jesus said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”4188 Truth and life doth every man desire; but not every man doth find the way. That God is a certain Life Eternal, Unchangeable, Intelligible, Intelligent, Wise, Making wise, some philosophers even of this world have seen. The fixed, settled, unwavering truth, wherein are all the principles4189 of all things created, they saw indeed, but afar off; they saw, but amid the error in which they were placed; and therefore what way to attain to that so great, and ineffable, and beatific a possession they formed not. For that even they saw (as far as can be seen by man) the Creator by means of the creature, the Worker by His work, the Framer of the world by the world, the Apostle Paul is witness, whom Christians ought surely to believe. For he said when he was speaking of such; “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.”4190 These are, as ye recognise, the words of the Apostle Paul; “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men; who detain the truth in unrighteous- ness.” Did he say that they do not detain truth? No: but, “They detained the truth in unright- eousness.” What they detain, is good; but wherein they detain it, is bad. “They detain the truth in unrighteousness.” 2. Now it occurred to him that it might be said to him, “Whence do these ungodly men detain the truth? Hath God spoken to any one of them? Have they received the Law as the people of the Israelites by Moses? Whence then do they detain the truth, though it be even in this unrighteousness?” Hear what follows, and he shows. “Because that which can be known of God,” he says, “is manifest in them; for God hath manifested it unto them.” 4191 Manifested it unto them to whom He hath not given the Law? Hear how He hath manifested it. “For the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.”4192 Ask the world, the beauty of the heaven, the brilliancy and ordering of the stars, the sun, that sufficeth for the day, the moon, the solace of the night; ask the earth fruitful in herbs, and trees, full of animals, adorned with men; ask the sea, with how great and what kind of fishes filled; ask the air, with how great birds stocked;4193 ask all things, and see if they do not as if it were by a language4194 of their own make answer to thee, “God made 4188 John xiv. 6. 4189 Rationes. 4190 Rom. i. 18. 4191 Rom. i. 19. 4192 Rom. i. 20. 4193 Viget. 4194 Sensu. On the words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.’ 1097 On the words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and…