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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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2. The sufferings of Christ may be understood exemplarily, by way of conformity to Christ; That we suffer as he suffered. In which particular, Rom. 8. we are said to be conform unto his Image. 1 Pet. 4. 13. we are commanded to rejoice, when we are partakers of Christs sufferings: That is, when we have a communion and fellowship with him. For if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. This is part of the meaning. But then
2. The sufferings of Christ may be understood exemplarily, by way of conformity to Christ; That we suffer as he suffered. In which particular, Rom. 8. we are said to be conforme unto his Image. 1 Pet. 4. 13. we are commanded to rejoyce, when we are partakers of Christs sufferings: That is, when we have a communion and fellowship with him. For if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. This is part of the meaning. But then
3. That which is the principal and chiefest meaning of the phrase, is, to understand it causally, those sufferings we endure because of Christ: For owning his way, for continuance in his Discipleship. For the way of Christ being contrary to the course of the world, hence it is, that they are stirred up as so many hornets: They are the Serpents seed, and are of their Father the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning; and therefore if the godly will cleave to Christ, they must expect no mercy from the world.
3. That which is the principal and chiefest meaning of the phrase, is, to understand it causally, those sufferings we indure because of Christ: For owning his way, for continuance in his Discipleship. For the way of Christ being contrary to the course of the world, hence it is, that they are stirred up as so many hornets: They are the Serpents seed, and are of their Father the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning; and therefore if the godly will cleave to Christ, they must expect no mercy from the world.