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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 5
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WE have considered Paul under the second adjunct attributed to him, viz. his Apostleship, Paul an Apostle; whereupon we treated on the Office of the Apostles. We proceed to a second Observation. For whereas Paul doth therefore mention his Call to that glorious Office, thereby to be received with greater reverence and authority: as also to encourage himself against those false Apostles, who used their utmost endeavour to bring him into reproach with the Corinthians. We may thence observe this,1
VVE have considered Paul under the second adjunct attributed to him, viz. his Apostleship, Paul an Apostle; whereupon we treated on the Office of the Apostles. We proceed to a second Observation. For whereas Paul doth therefore mention his Call to that glorious Office, thereby to be received with greater reverence and authority: as also to encourage himself against those false Apostles, who used their utmost endeavour to bring him into reproach with the Corinthians. We may thence observe this,1
- 1It is of great consequence both to Ministers and people to be informed of the Divine Call of their Church-officers.
That it is of great consequence both to the Ministers of God, and the people to be fully informed of that Divine Call, which the Officers of the Church have towards them.
That they who preach may be able to say, We come in the Name of the ⟨p. 20⟩Lord to you. It is not we that have obtruded our selves, but God that hath invested us with this Office over you. And they also who hear, may say, We esteem of you as the stewards of God; we receive you as Ambassadors from the Lord to us.