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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 65
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This will put a fear of death upon us, because that is nothing but the presenting of our souls in his presence. We read Judg. 6. 23. and in many other places, when God made any glorious apparition, the persons who beheld it were so amazed and stricken with the sense of their imbecility, that they thought they should die presently; and shall not the thoughts about death, that it's the dislodging of the soul and bringing it immediately before God, strike much terror into us? This holy and reverential fear about death is laudable, and is the fruit of the fear of God; but when this fear of death maketh thee fear God the less, or hindereth thee in the service of him, then cast this Hagar out of doors.
This will put a fear of death upon us, because that is nothing but the presenting of our souls in his presence. We read Judg. 6. 23. and in many other places, when God made any glorious apparition, the persons who beheld it were so amazed and stricken with the sense of their imbecillty, that they thought they should die presently; and shall not the thoughts about death, that it's the dislodging of the soul and bringing it immediately before God, strike much terrour into us? This holy and reverential fear about death is laudable, and is the fruit of the fear of God; but when this fear of death maketh thee fear God the less, or hindereth thee in the service of him, then cast this Hagar out of doors.
Fourthly, The fear of death is sinful, when it doth proceed from a sinful cause. 1If the fountain be bitter, then the stream is bitter. Now there are these sinful causes of the fear of death.
Fourthly, The fear of death is sinfull, when it doth proceed from a sinfull cause. 1If the fountain be bitter, then the stream is bitter. Now there are these sinfull causes of the fear of death.