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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The second thing in the Proposition, is the attribute [Greek or Hebrew], abounds: It 1is not only [Greek or Hebrew] in the plural number, but also [Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysostom understands it comparatively to Christ, as if the meaning were, We suffer more then Christ. Christ indeed, said of his Disciples, they should do greater works and miracles then he did, but it is impossible they should suffer more then he did. For, his death was not only a Martyrdom, but a Propitiation, being a Sacrifice offered up for the sins of many. The word then only showeth, That the Sons of God may not only suffer, but their sufferings may abound, may overflow; so that both in number and weight, they may greatly exceed.
The second thing in the Proposition, is the attribute 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, abounds: It 1is not only 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the plural number, but also 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Chrysostome understands it comparatively to Christ, as if the meaning were, We suffer more then Christ. Christ indeed, said of his Disciples, they should do greater works and miracles then he did, but it is impossible they should suffer more then he did. For, his death was not only a Martyrdome, but a Propitiation, being a Sacrifice offered up for the sinnes of many. The word then only sheweth, That the Sons of God may not only suffer, but their sufferings may abound, may overflow; so that both in number and weight, they may greatly exceed.
- 1What is meant by the sufferings of Christ abounding.
Lastly, In the Proposition, it is [Greek or Hebrew], not [Greek or Hebrew], as in the reddition it followeth,