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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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1. Christs death was not only a martyrdom, but a propitiation, and an atonement also. Christ (we grant) did suffer as a Martyr, he came into the world to bear witness to the truth. And he is said 1 Tim. 6. 13. To have witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate. But those wretched Socinians are therefore to be abhorred, because they make this the only end of his death, That he died by way of example, not by way of propitiation for our sins. Thus with them the sufferings of Christ, and of Paul for the Church, differ only gradually, not in kind. Christ ⟨p. 221⟩died as a more eminent Martyr than Paul, but both only by way of witness to the truth. Take we heed then, that we do not split our souls at this rock of blasphemy, denying the atonement of Christs sufferings.
1. Christs death was not only a martyrdom, but a propitiation, and an atonement also. Christ (we grant) did suffer as a Martyr, he came into the world to bear witnesse to the truth. And he is said 1 Tim. 6. 13. To have witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate. But those wretched Socinians are therefore to be abhorred, because they make this the only end of his death, That he died by way of example, not by way of propitiation for our sins. Thus with them the sufferings of Christ, and of Paul for the Church, differ only gradually, not in kind. Christ ⟨p. 221⟩died as a more eminent Martyr than Paul, but both only by way of witness to the truth. Take we heed then, that we do not split our souls at this rock of blasphemy, denying the atonement of Christs sufferings.
2. They differ in the efficacy also. For Paul's sufferings, and so all the sufferings