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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 64
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First, Hereby men do more patiently abide under their afflictions. As long as it is not death, they do the more willingly bear it. Lament. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain? If a man be greatly punished for his sins, yet if God keep him alive, he hath cause to be more patient. Thus Satan thought (Job 2. 4.) Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for life. Therefore he would have Job tried in that. Fear then of death is a mercy, because hereby men may the more readily sit down under other afflictions that are not so bad as death. When therefore men come to such high discontents as Ahitophel, because his counsel was neglected: or such despairing terrors of conscience as Judas did, that they choose to die, yea to make away them selves. This as it is an heavy temptation and desertion from God, so it argueth that by the fear of death, men do patiently abide under their distresses; but when they care not for this, they voluntarily throw themselves into the flame of hell.
First, Hereby men do more patiently abide under their afflictions. As long as it is not death, they do the more willingly bear it. Lament. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain? If a man be greatly punished for his sinnes, yet if God keep him alive, he hath cause to be more patient. Thus Satan thought (Job 2. 4.) Skinne for skinne, and all that a man hath he will give for life. Therefore he would have Job tryed in that. Fear then of death is a mercy, because hereby men may the more readily sit down under other afflictions that are not so bad as death. When therefore men come to such high discontents as Ahitophel, because his counsel was neglected: or such despairing terrours of conscience as Judas did, that they choose to die, yea to make away them selves. This as it is an heavy temptation and desertion from God, so it argueth that by the fear of death, men do patiently abide under their distresses; but when they care not for this, they voluntarily throw themselves into the flame of hell.