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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
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But I proceed. This happy and blessed estate is promoted, as the Doctrine informeth us, by all the dispensations which the people of God meet with. That as passengers in a ship are still carried on to the haven, though sick and well, though waking and sleeping, yet every moment they are driven forward to their home. Thus the people of God, if afflicted, this helpeth forward to Heaven; if comforted, this also maketh for Heaven. So that let the Devil be never so busy a Lion to devour them; let the world be filled with never so many snares, yet the counsel of God cannot be frustrated. That gracious purpose of God to bring them to salvation will be effectual, and be accomplished even by those things that seem to oppose it.
But I proceed. This happy and blessed estate is promoted, as the Doctrine informeth us, by all the dispensations which the people of God meet with. That as passengers in a ship are still carried on to the haven, though sick and well, though waking and sleeping, yet every moment they are driven forward to their home. Thus the people of God, if afflicted, this helpeth forward to Heaven; if comforted, this also maketh for Heaven. So that let the Devil be never so busie a Lion to devour them; let the world be filled with never so many snares, yet the counsel of God cannot be frustrated. That gracious purpose of God to bring them to salvation will be effectual, and be accomplished even by those things that seem to oppose it.
Now there are two sorts of dispensations from God, which further the salvation of believers.1
Now there are two sorts of dispensations from God, which further the salvation of belivers.1
- 1Two sorts of dispensations from God which further the salvation of a believer. 1. The direct means appointed by God for this end.