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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 58
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How useful it is to the children of God, to know the Afflictions which the Saints suffer for Christs sake: And why the Preaching concerning the Saints afflictions, even from Heathens, is necessary to Christians, though for the present they be in peace and quietness.
How usefull it is to the children of God, to know the Afflictions which the Saints suffer for Christs sake: And why the Preaching concerning the Saints afflictions, even from Heathens, is necessary to Christians, though for the present they be in peace and quietness.
2 COR. 1. 8. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we are pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.
WE are now arrived at the eighth verse, which Piscator maketh the beginning of that Apologetical Narration, which we have Paul declaring in the following part of the Chapter against those calumnies that were cast upon him. The first whereof was his levity and inconstancy. For having promised to come to them, he did not, which the false teachers branded with mutability. Now it is thought that Paul instanceth in this great trouble he met with in Asia, as the cause why he did not come, as he had promised. But I rather join with those, that do make it part of the precedent Discourse about afflictions and consolations in them. So that what he had in the general only spoken of before, he now illustrateth in particular; because (saith Cajetan on the place, Sermones morales, &c. Moral Discourses are the more effectual, by how much the more particular they are. Paul therefore having in the general asserted the blessed fruit and gracious issue of afflictions to such as believe; he instanceth in himself, by an heavy affliction which did befall him, and of the wonderful deliverance which God vouchsafed to him. He was like Jonah even in the whales belly, and yet God vouchsafed mercy and consolation to him.