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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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and that not only from the world, but even from such who profess Christ in Name, but deny him in Power. What is more ordinary, then to see a titular and nominal Christian, to hate and abhor a real, lively and powerful Christian? and only because he is more strict and forward in the ways of Christ then he is. Thus then you must understand the Doctrine of one; Who is a Christian in Power, as well as in Name; of one who doth not divide Christ, but taketh all of him; of one who is not a flatterer, but a Friend to him: That saith to Christ, as Ruth to Naomi, I will not leave thee, but where thou livest, I will live. One that accounteth Christ a Pearl, and sells all, parts with all his lusts, his pleasures and advantages, to have Christ. Such an one as this, can no more be free from sufferings in this world, then a Dove be quiet among Hawks, or a Lamb among Wolves.
and that not only from the world, but even from such who professe Christ in Name, but deny him in Power. What is more ordinary, then to see a titular and nominal Christian, to hate and abhor a reall, lively and powerfull Christian? and only because he is more strict and forward in the waies of Christ then he is. Thus then you must understand the Doctrine of one; Who is a Christian in Power, as well as in Name; of one who doth not divide Christ, but taketh all of him; of one who is not a flatterer, but a Friend to him: That saith to Christ, as Ruth to Naomi, I will not leave thee, but where thou livest, I will live. One that accounteth Christ a Pearl, and sells all, parts with all his lusts, his pleasures and advantages, to have Christ. Such an one as this, can no more be free from sufferings in this world, then a Dove be quiet among Hawks, or a Lamb among Wolves.
To understand this, consider,1
- 1Propositions declaring the truth of the Doctrine. 1. A Saints sufferings may be as extensive as his comforts.