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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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Thirdly, It was requisite to the Apostles, that they should be eye-witnesses 1of what Christ did and suffered, that so their testimony might be the more undoubted: And therefore even the Apostle Paul, though converted after Christs death and resurrection, yet acknowledgeth, that Christ was seen of him also; but for the other Apostles, they were present with Christ: And therefore the Apostle John, 1 Epist. 1. 1. begins his Epistle thus, That which we have seen and felt. This eye-witness, and familiar conversation also with Christ is mentioned, Acts 10. 41. God showed Christ, not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did both eat and drink with him. And this is that which confirmeth the History, some of them relate, for they were present in the acting of those things they record, and their faithfulness and honesty is abundantly testified otherwise. So that although ⟨p. 18⟩we did not see and behold what Christ did, and his miracles with our own eyes, yet those Apostles did, who are without all suspicion.
Thirdly, It was requisite to the Apostles, that they should be eye-witnesses 1of what Christ did and suffered, that so their testimony might be the more undoubted: And therefore even the Apostle Paul, though converted after Christs death and resurrection, yet acknowledgeth, that Christ was seen of him also; but for the other Apostles, they were present with Christ: And therefore the Apostle John, 1 Epist. 1. 1. begins his Epistle thus, That which we have seen and felt. This eye-witness, and familiar conversation also with Christ is mentioned, Acts 10. 41. God shewed Christ, not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did both eat and drink with him. And this is that which confirmeth the History, some of them relate, for they were present in the acting of those things they record, and their faithfulness and honesty is abundantly testified otherwise. So that although