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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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1. When it proceedeth from an inordinate love of life. An excessive love of life doth always beget an immoderate fear of death. So that we may judge of the sinfulness of fear by the sinfulness of love: If thy heart be not mortified and crucified to the world, if thy heart be not loosened and weaned from earthly comforts; and this maketh thee afraid to die, this is sinful. It is a fundamental qualification required in every Disciple of Christ; he cannot be Christs, unless he be above the love of all things, Matth. 10. 37. He that loveth father, or mother, or life it self, more than me, cannot be my Disciple. Why then art thou so afraid to die? Is it because thy heart is so dearly engaged in such relations, to such creatures? Be humbled for this, and reform.
1. When it proceedeth from an inordinate love of life. An excessive love of life doth alwayes beget an immoderate fear of death. So that we may judge of the sinfulness of fear by the sinfulness of love: If thy heart be not mortified and crucified to the world, if thy heart be not loosned and weaned from earthly comforts; and this maketh thee afraid to die, this is sinfull. It is a fundamental qualification required in every Disciple of Christ; he cannot be Christs, unless he be above the love of all things, Matth. 10. 37. He that loveth father, or mother, or life it self, more than me, cannot be my Disoiple. Why then art thou so afraid to die? Is it because thy heart is so dearly engaged in such relations, to such creatures? Be humbled for this, and reform.
A second sinful cause which floweth from the former, is, The want of love 1to God, and to Christ. Thy desire is not with Paul, To be with Christ; thou doest not judge this best of all. Not to be willing to die upon this account, must also be very sinful. Do we not pray for the Kingdom of God? Are we not to look for, and hasten the coming of Christ? Are we not to be as pilgrims and strangers in this world? Now if these things were real upon thee, though thou couldst not avoid a natural fear, yet thou wouldst greatly subdue a sinful fear.