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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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Therefore in the third place, Experience doth confirm it, That many men 1through the natural strength they have, are able to bear up themselves under extreme troubles. Therefore we must acknowledge a vast difference between a Natural bearing, and a Spiritual bearing of troubles: And it is the duty for every one to examine, whether Nature or Grace doth support. Rom. 4. 18. it is there said of Abraham, That against hope, he believed in hope; against natural hope, he believed in divine and supernatural hope. Thus the godly they do above strength with strength endure afflictions, above natural strength, with divine.
Therefore in the third place, Experience doth confirm it, That many men 1through the natural strength they have, are able to beare up themselves under extream troubles. Therefore we must acknowledge a vast difference between a Natural bearing, and a Spiritual bearing of troubles: And it is the duty for every one to examine, whether Nature or Grace doth support. Rom. 4. 18. it is there said of Abraham, That against hope, he believed in hope; against natural hope, he believed in divine and supernatural hope. Thus the godly they do above strength with strength endure afflictions, above natural strength, with divine.
- 13. There is a great difference betwixt a natural and spiritual bearing of troubles
But because many men naturally have patient dispositions; others stout and strong stomachs, it is good to know, whether Nature or Grace support thee. When Solomon saith, Prov. 18. 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities, but a wounded spirit who can bear! He doth by that give us a distinction of two sorts of troubles, The former External, such as fall upon our Body, Estate, or good Name. And now under these, many a man hath so much natural courage and boldness, that he will not shrink under them. But then