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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 45
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Therefore in the next place, The sufferings of Christ may be understood 1indeed of those he is affected with: but yet it is in his Members, not in his own Person. This is a very comfortable truth, that the sufferings of a godly man for Christs Cause, Christ accounts them as his sufferings; he taketh it as done to himself. Thus Christ, though glorified in Heaven, saith, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Act. 9. 4, 5. Christ is imprisoned, Christ is buffeted, ⟨p. 197⟩Christ is reproached, and mocked in them. As it is comfortable to the godly, so it is as terrible to all those who trouble and revile the godly for Christs sake, as too many do, though they think with Pilate, to wash their hands, and say, they are innocent. I mean the carnal and profane ones of the world, whose rage, if God did not restrain, would be as that Haman to the whole Nation of the Jews, not leave one alive. But this is not chiefly meant here, though this be not to be excluded.
Therefore in the next place, The sufferings of Christ may be understood 1indeed of those he is affected with: but yet it is in his Members, not in his own Person. This is a very comfortable truth, that the sufferings of a godly man for Christs Cause, Christ accounts them as his sufferings; he taketh it as done to himself. Thus Christ, though glorified in Heaven, saith, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Act. 9. 4, 5. Christ is imprisoned, Christ is buffetted, ⟨p. 197⟩Christ is reproached, and mocked in them. As it is comfortable to the godly, so it is as terrible to all those who trouble and revile the godly for Christs sake, as too many do, though they think with Pilate, to wash their hands, and say, they are innocent. I mean the carnal and prophane ones of the world, whose rage, if God did not restrain, would be as that Haman to the whole Nation of the Jews, not leave one alive. But this is not chiefly meant here, though this be not to be excluded.