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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 56
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That it is a great encouragement to a godly Minister, to see good grounds for the hope of true grace and steadfastness in Gods ways, in the people committed to his charge.
That it is a great encouragement to a godly Minister, to see good grounds for the hope of true grace and stedfastnesse in Gods wayes, in the people committed to his charge.
This was that which did here refresh Paul, that though he was put to many exercises and temptations about them; yet his hope was, that as it is said of Lazarus, his sickness was not unto death, but that the glory of ⟨p. 247⟩God might be manifested. So those failings and decays amongst the Corinthians were not for their destruction, but by their recovery and repentance to manifest the truth of grace more in them. In most of Pauls Epistles you may see this spiritual and public affection in him, where any are decaying or falling off, there his heart is wounded within him, where any flourish and continue steadfast in holiness, there he rejoiceth and triumpheth. How notably doth he speak, 1 Thess. 3. 7. We were comforted over you in all our afflictions by your faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Here we see Paul did not so much regard his own afflictions and distress, as the grace of the Thessalonians; and because they did not abate in their faith by the afflictions they met with, therefore this comforted him in all his distress: Yea he professeth he liveth, if they stand fast, as if their Apostasy would be worse than all his troubles to him, yea would break his heart, and be his death. The Epistle also to the Galatians, who began to decay and to end in the flesh after their beginning in the Spirit, doth abundantly declare what agonies he was in about them, Galat. 4. 19. Little children of whom I travail again in birth: he compareth those troubles and exercises of his mind about them to the pangs and groans of a woman in travail, Who hath bewitched you,