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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 50
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2. There are the sufferings of the members of Christ united to him their Head; and these are called his sufferings, because of that mystical conjunction between Christ and his members; as also that sympathy that is in him with them in their sufferings. Now as Christ was appointed to sufferings; so is every member of his, by way of conformity to their Head set apart also for their sufferings; and these are the afflictions of Christ that are still behind. All the members of Christ have not yet fully suffered. In every age there are some still to be afflicted for his sake, and as long as any one believer is to suffer, so long something of Christs afflictions remaineth still behind. Therefore the Apostle addeth, He was to fulfil these 1afflictions in his flesh; and the end is, for the good of the Church. They suffer for the Church, but not as Christ suffereth, as will appear by some Propositions to clear the Doctrine.
2. There are the sufferings of the members of Christ united to him their Head; and these are called his sufferings, because of that mystical conjunction between Christ and his members; as also that sympathy that is in him with them in their sufferings. Now as Christ was appointed to sufferings; so is every member of his, by way of conformity to their Head set apart also for their sufferings; and these are the afflictions of Christ that are still behind. All the members of Christ have not yet fully suffered. In every age there are some still to be afflicted for his sake, and as long as any one believer is to suffer, so long something of Christs afflictions remaineth still behind. Therefore the Apostle addeth, He was to fulfill these 1afflictions in his flesh; and the end is, for the good of the Church. They suffer for the Church, but not as Christ suffereth, as will appear by some Propositions to clear the Doctrine.
- 1Propositions clearing the truth. 1. The sufferings of Saints for the good of the Church, are still to be distinguished from Christs sufferings. How Christian Martyrs sufferings differ. 1. His death was not only a Martyrdom, but a propitiation.