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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 49
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How and why God always proportions a Saints Comforts to his Sufferings, and often makes them to overflow? And why he often denies Comforts to his People in their troubles.
How and why God alwaies proportions a Saints Comforts to his Sufferings, and often makes them to overflow? And why he often denies Comforts to his People in their troubles.
2 COR. 1. 5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolations also aboundeth by Christ.
WE shall now put a period to our discourse about this text; there remaineth the last Observation to be improved, which is from the habitude or proportion, that is between our sufferings and our comforts, as the one aboundeth, so the other aboundeth. Should we have great sufferings, and small comforts, this would be to put some few drops of honey into a fountain of gall: The bitterness would still abide. The Lord therefore doth commensurate his comforts according to our afflictions; he layeth a Giants burden upon Giants shoulders, and Children's burden upon a Child.
WE shall now put a period to our discourse about this text; there remaineth the last Observation to be improved, which is from the habitude or proportion, that is between our sufferings and our comforts, as the one aboundeth, so the other aboundeth. Should we have great sufferings, and small comforts, this would be to put some few drops of honey into a fountain of gall: The bitternesse would still abide. The Lord therefore doth commensurate his comforts according to our afflictions; he layeth a Gyants burden upon Gyants shoulders, and Childrens burden upon a Child.