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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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To discover this truth, Let us consider, What things made Paul have 1such hopes about these Corinthians, and apply these things to our selves And
- 1What things they were which made Paul hope so well of the Corinthians. 1. Their amendment and repentance by his former Epistle.
First, Their amendment and repentance, by the former Epistle wrote to them, in that you may see the body of the Church of Corinth was almost like Jobs or Lazarus's body, full of spiritual loathsomeness, corruptions in Doctrine and practice, and some of them in a very high nature, for which our zealous Apostle, as the Lord Christ once did, maketh a rod to drive these corruptions out, he is both a light shining and burning; he keepeth to that rule, which he giveth Timothy, Rebuke sharply, and reprove in all Doctrine. He is salt to these Corinthians. Now these sharp reproofs do not provoke them to discontent, to impatience; but it had a savoury and spiritual operation upon them. If he said, Genus quoddam est Martyrii reprehensionem patienter far, It's a kind of Martyrdom to suffer reproof patiently; then these Corinthians were Martyrs in this sense; for they did not only take these rebukes well, but are thereby put upon a zealous and powerful repentance. So that when this spiritual Physician saw his medicines kindly operate, then he began to hope well of them. On the other side, we see the Prophets complaining of Jerusalem as incurable, Because she slighted the Prophets, and stoned them, so that there remained no more remedy for them. The Prophets complained, They stretched out their hands all the day long to a rebellious people, and that the bellows were consumed, yet the dross was not purged away, This then is a very hopeful symptom about a people, when we see by the Word preached, that their hearts are broken, that they are convinced and ashamed of what they have done, and reform for the future. The Apostle speaketh fully to this, 2 Cor. 7. 8, 9, 10, 11