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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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And Christ said, He came that his people might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Thus the power of God, the favour of God, is in abundance; Heaven, and salvation, is in abundance. As Christ is our overflowing fountain in all other things, so in this of consolation likewise. Hence some have received so much comfort from God, that they have not been able to bear it: They have said, They had enough, more would even overwhelm. For there are those who dyed by joy, especially when sudden, as well as by grief.
And Christ said, He came that his people mght have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Thus the power of God, the favour of God, is in abundance; Heaven, and salvation, is in abundance. As Christ is our overflowing fountain in all other things, so in this of consolation likewise. Hence some have received so much comfort from God, that they have not been able to bear it: They have said, They had enough, more would even overwhelm. For there are those who dyed by joy, especially when suddain, as well as by grief.
In the next place, let us consider the grounds, Why God is thus merciful, that he not just only proportions his comforts to our sufferings, but maketh them to exceed. And1
In the next place, let us consider the grounds, Why God is thus mercifull, that he not just only proportions his comforts to our sufferings, but maketh them to exceed. And1
- 1Reasons. 1. Because God in all his administrations doth still regard his own glory, not our desert.