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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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Fourthly, The Apostles were universal Officers; they were not limited or 1fixed to particular Churches: as the Pastors were, but the whole Church of God was their flock; Therefore they are called, the light of the world, and the salt of the earth, not Judea only: And thus the Apostle professed, He had care over all the Churches; Therefore you see to how many Churches he directs his Epistles; and although Paul makes his Apostleship for the Gentiles, and Peter for the Jews; yet that was either by consent, or else, though they did principally attend to these, yet they did also declare the Gospel to others, as it is plain in Cornelius his case, that Peter did preach to the Gentiles.
Fourthly, The Apostles were universal Officers; they were not limitted or 1fixed to particular Churches: as the Pastors were, but the whole Church of God was their flock; Therefore they are called, the light of the world, and the salt of the earth, not Judea only: And thus the Apostle professed, He had care over all the Churches; Therefore you see to how many Churches he directs his Epistles; and although Paul makes his Apostleship for the Gentiles, and Peter for the Jews; yet that was either by consent, or else, though they did principally attend to these, yet they did also declare the Gospel to others, as it is plain in Cornelius his case, that Peter did preach to the Gentiles.
- 14. They were universal officers.
Fifthly, They were endowed with the Spirit of God in an infallible manner; 1so that while they were on earth, they were a kind of visible infallible Judges. Whatsoever person or Churches did resort to them, for the determining of any case of Conscience, they could decide infallibly. Therefore the Apostle,