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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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Lastly, If God should not give proportionable comfort in sufferings, his glorious 1end would not be obtained in bringing these upon us. For these are to demonstrate and draw out our graces; That we may be more then conquerors, Rom. 8. And, That we may [Greek or Hebrew], as 1 Cor. 10. more then bear. It is not enough merely to conquer afflictions, but we are more then conquerors: For, there is no conqueror but hath some loss, but the Children of God lose nothing, for they are advantaged every way, both here and hereafter. So that as their sufferings are an effect of their Predestination, thus also their support and consolation floweth from the same fountain. Shall God, as the Author of grace, be more deficient in his works, then as he is the Author of nature? If then, in the course of nature, we live, and move, and have our being; yea, every thing hath a natural delight and facility to its works of nature; shall not the godly in the exercises of grace, which are most put forth in the times of trouble? God will provide, that all thy sufferings shall not be in vain.
Lastly, If God should not give proportionable comfort in sufferings, his glorious 1end would not be obtained in bringing these upon us. For these are to demonstrate and draw out our graces; That we may be more then conquerours, Rom. 8. And, That we may 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as 1 Cor. 10. more then bear. It is not enough meerly to conquer afflictions, but we are more then conquerours: For, there is no conquerour but hath some losse, but the Children of God lose nothing, for they are advantaged every way, both here and hereafter. So that as their sufferings are an effect of their Predestination, thus also their support and consolation floweth from the same fountain. Shall God, as the Authour of grace, be more deficient in his works, then as he is the Authour of nature? If then, in the course of nature, we live, and move, and have our being; yea, every thing hath a natural delight and facility to its works of nature; shall not the godly in the exercises of grace, which are most put forth in the times of trouble? God will provide, that all thy sufferings shall not be in vain.