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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 55
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As for the thing it self, viz. Salvation, that may answer the Hebrew word 1Peace, which containeth a confluence of all good things. The Heathens did so admire it, that they built a Temple Deae Saluti, to the Goddess Safety; though they understood only a temporal safety; and therefore when they were saved or delivered from dangers, they did offer their Sacrifices called [Greek or Hebrew]; Thus they thought all their safety came from Heaven, though corrupted with blind minds. In the Scripture we read of a two-fold salvation: A Temporal one; and the Old Testament speaketh much of this salvation, because temporal mercies were in a more plentiful manner vouchsafed to them; not but that the godly looked for a spiritual salvation, as Jacob witnesseth in his benedictory prayer before his death, saying, Gen. 49. 18. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord; only spiritual things were not so clearly and plainly manifested, as in the Gospel times. Hence the Temple, 1 King. 6. 4. had windows indeed, but they were of narrow lights. This Salvation temporal is often in the Old Testament expressed in the plural number, The salvations of the Lord, because of the multitude and Frequency of them.
As for the thing it self, viz. Salvation, that may answer the Hebrew word 1Peace, which containeth a confluence of all good things. The Heathens did so admire it, that they built a Temple Deae Saluti, to the Goddesse Safety; though they understood only a temporal safety; and therefore when they were saved or delivered from dangers, they did offer their Sacrifices called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Thus they thought all their safety came from Heaven, though corrupted with blind minds. In the Scripture we read of a two-fold salvation: A Temporal one; and the Old Testament speaketh much of this salvation, because temporal mercies were in a more plentifull manner vouchsafed to them; not but that the godly looked for a spiritual salvation, as Jacob witnesseth in his benedictory prayer before his death, saying, Gen. 49. 18