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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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Fourthly, To suffer for Christ there is required, An holy Wisdom and prudence. 1For it is not Christian fortitude, unless regulated by Christian prudence. Discretion is the salt to season all our Sacrifices: for to Sacrifices there was salt required, as well as fire. When our Saviour gave that admirable counsel, Be wise as Serpents, and innocent as Doves, Matth. 10. 16. he showeth what an excellent temper even ad pondus a Christian should be of. The Serpent must not eat up the Dove, yet a Dove-like temper must be accompanied with wisdom. Courage to suffer without wisdom, is like Samson without eyes, and many times did ⟨p. 208⟩more dishonour God, then all sufferings did honour him. Austin disliked the zeal of some, who demolished the Heathenish Idols, of their own private accord, having no Authority thereunto. The indiscretion of one Andas a Bishop, setting fire on a Persian Temple, where they worshipped fire as a god, brought a sad and sore persecution; and when the Bishop was commanded to build it up again at his own charges, for his refusal he was put to death. Now saith an Ecclesiastical Primitive Writer, I discommend him for his imprudence in demolishing the Temple, but I admire his zeal that he would die rather than rebuild it. He then suffereth for Christ, that hath prudence and wisdom to order his zeal, so that he suffer not for his own folly, but merely for Christ. Only this is a very nice point, to distinguish prudence from carnal policy; but that is not my work now.
Fourthly, To suffer for Christ there is required, An holy Wisdome and prudence. 1For it is not Christian fortitude, unlesse regulated by Christian prudence. Discretion is the salt to season all our Sacrifices: for to Sacrifices there was salt required, as well as fire. When our Saviour gave that admirable counsel, Be wise as Serpents, and innocent as Doves, Matth. 10. 16. he sheweth what an excellent temper even ad pondus a Christian should be of. The Serpent must not eat up the Dove, yet a Dove-like temper must be accompanied with wisdome. Courage to suffer without wisdome, is like Samson without eyes, and many times did