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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 47
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What Qualifications they must be endowed with, who suffer in a right manner for Christ?
2 COR. 1. 5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
What it is to suffer for Christ ex parte objects, in respect of the matter for which, hath already been dispatched. We now proceed to show, What is required ex parte subjecti; What are the qualifications necessary in him, who doth truly suffer for Christ. When we read of so many glorious privileges promised to such as are troubled for Christs sake, you must know, that their bare suffering, no not for that which is righteous, is enough to entitle them to this blessedness; but there must be the Adverb as well as the Noun: it must not only be pro bono; but benè, for that which is good; but also in a good manner for suffering and martyrdom it self; as all other duties is not integrated of all its causes; as it is not enough to pray, to hear, though these for the matter be commanded, but they must be done in an holy and spiritual manner. Thus it is not enough to suffer, or to be persecuted, and that for Christs sake, unless also we have that holy frame of heart in suffering, which Gods word doth require.
WHat it is to suffer for Christ ex parte objects, in respect of the matter for which, hath already been dispatched. We now proceed to shew, What is required ex parte subjecti; What are the qualifications necessary in him, who doth truly suffer for Christ. When we read of so many glorious priviledges promised to such as are troubled for Christs sake, you must know, that their bare suffering, no not for that which is righteous, is enough to entitle them to this blessedness; but there must be the Adverb as well as the Nown: it must not only be pro bono; but benè, for that which is good; but also in a good manner for suffering and martyrdome it self; as all other duties is not integrated of all its causes; as it is not enough to pray, to hear, though these for the matter be commanded, but they must be done in an holy and spiritual manner. Thus it is not enough to suffer, or to be persecuted, and that for Christs sake, unlesse also we have that holy frame of heart in suffering, which Gods word doth require.