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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 59
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That the faithful Ministers of the Gospel, are sure to meet with much opposition 1from all such, who regard Religion no further, than it maketh for their carnal advantage and interest.
That the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel, are sure to meet with much opposition 1from all such, who regard Religion no further, than it maketh for their carnal advantage and interest.
- 1The faithful Ministers of the Gospel are sure to meet with opposition from the world.The faithfull Ministers of the Gospel are sure to meet with opposition from the world.
A necessary truth this is; for hereby every one, whose heart riseth against the powerful preaching of the Word, may examine himself, What is the motive thereof? What is the cause thereof? Though he may pretend this specious colour, and that fair gloss, yet it is some lust or other, some carnal advantage or other, that doth indeed kindle that flame in his breast.
A necessary truth this is; for hereby every one, whose heart riseth against the powerfull preaching of the Word, may examine himself, What is the motive thereof? What is the cause thereof? Though he may pretend this specious colour, and that fair glosse, yet it is some lust or other, some carnal advantage or other, that doth indeed kindle that flame in his brest.
That this Doctrine may be the better conceived, let us take notice, What was the cause that brought this trouble upon Paul at Ephesus; and we shall there see, how the same causes do still make men mad, and bitter enemies against the ways of God. The History we have related,