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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 51
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First, That the sufferings of others do work good only occasionally, or by way 1of example. We must not conceive any merit or causality (as was declared before) in Martyrs; They are Examples, not Mediators; Their light did shine that we might thereby glorify God. So that we must take heed that the sufferings of the godly do not obscure the sufferings of Christ, that they should not be accounted the only treasure of Christ. But as Luther was afraid, lest his books should take men off from meditating on the Bible: Or as Paul was afraid men should judge of him, as if he by his own power had done that miracle; and therefore told them, It was only by the Name of Christ. So also it was with all the true Martyrs of Christ, they were humble, looking upon themselves as unworthy of the name of a Martyr; neither would they have their blood derogate from the blood of Christ. Hence2
First, That the sufferings of others do work good only occasionally, or by way 1of example. We must not conceive any merit or causality (as was declared before) in Martyrs; They are Examples, not Mediators; Their light did shine that we might thereby glorifie God. So that we must take heed that the sufferings of the godly do not obscure the sufferings of Christ, that they should not be accounted the only treasure of Christ. But as Luther was afraid, lest his books should take men off from meditating on the Bible: Or as Paul was afraid men should judge of him, as if he by his own power had done that miracle; and therefore told them, It was onely by the Name of Christ. So also it was with all the true Martyrs of Christ, they were humble, looking upon themselves as unworthy of the name of a Martyr; neither would they have their blood derogate from the blood of Christ. Hence2
- 11. The sufferings of others work good only occasionally, not efficiently or meritoriously.
- 22. Hence we may bewail the superstition of the Church about the Martyrs.