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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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In the second place, It's not enough to plead a Call, and that a true one, unless there be also a faithful improving of it, unless the Office be executed 1according to the institution of it. Paul doth not glory in the mere Title and Office of an Apostleship, but supposeth also his faithful dispensation of it. Yea he was so careful herein, that he professeth, He knew nothing by himself, viz. of negligent and ill administration in this Office, 1 Cor. 4. 2. Yea he saith, That he kept his body, lest while he preached to others, he himself should become a reprobate, 1 Cor. 9. 27. Judas was an Apostle, yet he had little cause to boast in that Office, seeing he was a Devil at the same time. Grant therefore that some may make it clear, that they have a Call from God, yet if they are not faithful and diligent therein, the greater will be their condemnation ⟨p. 21⟩be. Suppose the Pope could prove (which yet he can never do) that he doth succeed Peter, and that in Universal Jurisdiction, yet if he did not succeed likewise Peter in his Doctrine, in his diligence and life, he were inexcusable: and well did the Painter draw Peter with too red a colour, as blushing at the enormities of his Successors. So that two things go to make a complete Officer in the Church, his Divine Call, and his faithful administration thereof; and this later is necessary, because without diligence therein he cannot expect that promise, and assistance of God, which otherwise would be communicated unto him.
In the second place, It's not enough to plead a Call, and that a true one, unless there be also a faithfull improving of it, unless the Office be executed 1according to the institution of it. Paul doth not glory in the meer Title and Office of an Apostleship, but supposeth also his faithfull dispensation of it. Yea he was so carefull herein, that he professeth, He knew nothing by himself, viz. of negligent and ill administration in this Office, 1 Cor. 4. 2