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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
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They condemn him for a busy-body, whereas indeed Ahab by his wickedness (as the Prophet said) was the troubler of the Land. In suffering then for Christ, we see much prudence as well as zeal is required; yet so, as not to regard the censure of the world: For, who ever suffered for Christ, and their persecutors did not represent them so odiously, as that they might seem to deserve it? This is the first thing.
They condemn him for a busy-body, whereas indeed Ahab by his wickednesse (as the Prophet said) was the troubler of the Land. In suffering then for Christ, we see much prudence as well as zeal is required; yet so, as not to regard the censure of the world: For, who ever suffered for Christ, and their persecutors did not represent them so odiously, as that they might seem to deserve it? This is the first thing.
Secondly, For the object matter, The Scripture expresseth it another time, 1for the Name of Christ. Mat. 19. 29. Whosoever shall for sake houses, lands, &c. for my Names sake. Job. 15. 21. All these things will they do to you for my Names sake. What is Christs name? not only the Person of Christ himself; but as the Name of God, is that whereby God is known, so is the Name of Christ. Yea, under this, is comprehended those Doctrines, and that Faith which Christ had delivered to us. The truths of Christ are to be dearer to us then our lives. Hence it was, that Christianity hath amazed the world, with those millions and millions of Martyrs, that have been for the faith of Christ. It was a wicked opinion of the Priscillianists of old, That a man might lye, dissemble, and forswear the truths of Christ, bow to Idols, and communicate with heathens in any bodily worship, so as they kept the true faith in their hearts. But this is directly opposite to Scripture. Rom. 10. 16. With the heart man believeth, and with the month confession is made to salvation. To salvation: So that a man cannot be saved, though he doth in his heart believe, if he do not, when it is casus confessionis, a case of confession, confess also with his mouth the same faith. And