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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 63
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Paul saith here, It was above his strength; not to complain, not to accuse God, as if he were too severe; but thereby to debase himself, and to give all glory to God. Thus Isai. 40. 28, 29. when the Church began even to despair under her long calamities, saying, Her way was hid from God, he took no notice of her condition. With what encouragement doth God speak, and that from this property in him? The Creator of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary. God sinketh not under the government of the world, nor the preservation of the Church. For if the Sun that hath run its course so many years, is not weary, but can perform it as swiftly as ever: Do we think God will be weary? But this is not all the comfort. As he hath this power, so he communicateth it to his weak people. To them that have no might, he increaseth strength. So that the more sensible we are of our own impotency, the more ready is God to put forth his power.
Paul saith here, It was above his strength; not to complain, not to accuse God, as if he were too severe; but thereby to debase himself, and to give all glory to God. Thus Isai. 40. 28, 29. when the Church began even to despair under her long calamities, saying, Her way was hid from God, he took no notice of her condition. With what incouragement doth God speak, and that from this property in him? The Creator of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary. God sinketh not under the government of the world, nor the preservation of the Church. For if the Sunne that hath runne its course so many years, is not weary, but can perform it as swiftly as ever: Do we think God will be weary? But this is not all the comfort. As he hath this power, so he communicateth it to his weak people. To them that have no might, he increaseth strength. So that the more sensible we are of our own impotency, the more ready is God to put forth his power.
To explain this, Let us consider,