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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 60
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This truth hath been in part opened; and because every Christian unregenerated, doth upon some false and carnal motive or other, take up the profession 1of Christ, whereby when he is put to the denial of that earthly respect, he can then no longer hold, but breaketh out in opposition to the pure ways of Christ. Therefore it is very useful to give further Characters of such who regard Religion only upon inferior and worldly respects. And
This truth hath been in part opened; and because every Christian unregenerated, doth upon some false and carnal motive or other, take up the profession 1of Christ, whereby when he is put to the denial of that earthly respect, he can then no longer hold, but breaketh out in opposition to the pure wayes of Christ. Therefore it is very usefull to give further Characters of such who regard Religion only upon inferiour and worldly respects. And
- 1More characters of such who profess Religion only upon worldly respects. 1. Such who in time of temptations prove adversaries to the Gospel and Ministry of it.More characters of such who professe Religion only upon worldly respects. 1. Such who in time of temptations prove adversaries to the Gospel and Ministry of it.
First, Such are led with corrupt respects, and in time of temptation will prove adversaries to the Ministers of the Gospel, who are not of a ready and prepared spirit, to take up the Cross, and to follow Christ in whatsoever condition he shall command; such who are Christs Disciples only in the Summer time, while there are Halcyon days and times of plenty and encouragement to be a Christian. These when they are urged to part with all, to suffer, and to be undone for Christ, then they turn into any thing; they will oppose and contradict that way, which once they did embrace and admire; yea they will become persecutors of such instruments of Gods glory, which once they did honour; and all this ariseth from the earthly and carnal heart, which made them at first look to Gods ways,