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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 46
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.
he hath not suffered more then he ought to do. Neither do I know that the word [Greek or Hebrew] is used in such a sense. Therefore it's better translated, This is a favour; this is grace, if God bring us to suffer for a good conscience towards him. If then thou art to suffer, either verbally, by mocks and slanders, or really, by miseries and persecutions; set the Crown of Glory, to the Crown of Thorns; set the honey, to the gall; set the honour with God, to the reproach amongst men. That which the carnal heart is so afraid of, the Scripture makes matter of joy, and of glorifying God for it.
he hath not suffered more then he ought to do. Neither do I know that the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is used in such a sense. Therefore it's better translated, This is a favour; this is grace, if God bring us to suffer for a good conscience towards him. If then thou art to suffer, either verbally, by mocks and slanders, or really, by miseries and persecutions; set the Crown of Glory, to the Crown of Thornes; set the honey, to the gall; set the honour with God, to the reproach amongst men. That which the carnal heart is so afraid of, the Scripture makes matter of joy, and of glorifying God for it.
Secondly, It being therefore so glorious a thing, it is good to inform you, What it is to suffer for Christ. For we may be the devils Martyrs, suffer as offenders, or as busybodies; suffer for heresies, and the works of the flesh, yet persuade and flatter our selves that we suffer for Christ.
Secondly, It being therefore so glorious a thing, it is good to inform you, What it is to suffer for Christ. For we may be the devils Martyrs, suffer as offenders, or as busybodies; suffer for heresies, and the works of the flesh, yet perswade and flatter our selves that we suffer for Christ.