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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 53
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Secondly, As God is the efficient cause, so the word of God that is instrumental. 1The Word is like Davids harp to drive out this evil spirit. So the Apostle, Rom. 15. 14. That we through patience of the Scriptures might have hope. When thy impatient flesh doth suggest this, and that argument to discontent and repining, Oh remember what the word of God saith! It is for want of Scripture-consideration, of Scripture-arguments that thy heart is so clamorous and unruly; such a command, such a promise would presently have made all calm and quiet. The Heathen adviseth an angry furious man to look in the glass, while he is in those passionate fits, that he may see how deformed he is made thereby; but how much rather, when thy heart hath boiled over with impatient repining thoughts, art thou to recover thy self immediately, and to look into the Word? See what that faith, what that requireth, and then thou wilt be ashamed, and abhorring thy self as a very beast.
Secondly, As God is the efficient cause, so the word of God that is instrumental. 1The Word is like Davids harp to drive out this evil spirit. So the Apostle, Rom. 15. 14. That we through patience of the Scriptures might have hope. When thy impatient flesh doth suggest this, and that argument to discontent and repining, Oh remember what the word of God saith! It is for want of Scripture-consideration, of Scripture-arguments that thy heart is so clamorous and unruly; such a command, such a promise would presently have made all calm and quiet. The Heathen adviseth an angry furious man to look in the glasse, while he is in those passionate fits, that he may see how deformed he is made thereby; but how much rather, when thy heart hath boiled over with impatient repining thoughts, art thou to recover thy self immediately, and to look into the Word? See what that faith, what that requireth, and then thou wilt be ashamed, and abhorring thy self as a very beast.
- 12. The word of God is the instrumental cause.