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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 4
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Secondly, It was required to the Apostles to be the first builders and planters of 1Churches. Therefore they were called, the salt of the earth, because by them God did wonderfully season the world. They were the light, because the world was in darkness, before they were raised up. So that although Christ himself be properly the foundation, and all Churches are built on him as a Rock, yet the Scripture saith, We are built upon the Apostles. Likewise Ephes. 2. 20. Jesus Christ being the corner stone. So, Revel. 21. 14. The twelve Apostles, are the iwelve foundations. Hence Divines usually distinguish between Fundamentum fundans, and fundatum. The Apostles they are a foundation, but yet need another foundation, which is the Lord Christ. Besides, it's the Doctrine of the Apostles, and not their persons, which the Church is built upon; only they were next to Christ, the first founders and builders of the Christian Church. Hence we read that Paul had the Apostleship for the Gentiles, and Peter for the Jews, Gal. 2. 8. And in this sense Cameron hath a singular opinion of that place so much vexed by Interpreters, viz. Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock will I build my Church; he understands it of Peter, and that he was the secondary Rock (Christ being the chiefest) upon which the Jewish Church was built, for by his Ministry they were converted. But this is capable of several Objections.
Secondly, It was required to the Apostles to be the first builders and planters of 1Churches. Therefore they were called, the salt of the earth, because by them God did wonderfully season the world. They were the light, because the world was in darkness, before they were raised up. So that although Christ himself be properly the foundation, and all Churches are built on him as a Rock, yet the Scripture saith, We are built upon the Apostles. Likewise Ephes. 2. 20. Jesus Christ being the corner stone. So,