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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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Hence in the second place, All those opinions, which hold, That a man is 1able to resist the tentations of sin, whether by prosperity or adversity, so that they be not very extreme and grievous, without grace and strength from Christ, are very injurious to the glory of God, though never so much coloured with specious distinctions. A man cannot do the least good, or bear the least evil without Gods power, in an holy manner: And (besides many Texts in Scripture) the reason is plain, Because the power of man, and supernatural objects have no proportion or habitude between them. Ordo Naturae, and Ordo Gratiae, differ as much as Heaven and Earth. For this reason the people of God are so earnestly to pray to God, that they be not lead into temptation. For let what temptation soever arise, if God leaveth thee to thy self, it will be to thy ruin.
Hence in the second place, All those opinions, which hold, That a man is 1able to resist the tentations of sinne, whether by prosperity or adversity, so that they be not very extream and grievous, without grace and strength from Christ, are very injurious to the glory of God, though never so much coloured with specious distinctions. A man cannot do the least good, or beare the least evil without Gods power, in an holy manner: And (besides many Texts in Scripture) the reason is plain, Because the power of man, and supernatural objects have no proportion or habitude between them. Ordo Naturae, and Ordo Gratiae, differ as much as Heaven and Earth. For this reason the people of God are so earnestly to pray to God, that they be not lead into temptation. For let what temptation soever arise, if God leaveth thee to thy self, it will be to thy ruine.
- 12. All opinion's that hold the contrary, are injurious to the glory of God.
Therefore in the third place, Experience doth confirm it, That many men