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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 66
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The word then doth signify a sentence passing upon him, That he must die. This he had received; but from whom? Not from God, for God delivered him, nor from the Magistrate, there was no such Decree that we read of against him: Therefore it was only from his own fears, his own thoughts, which maketh him say, He had received it in himself. You see then, that Gods thoughts were others then Paul's. Paul absolutely concluded he should die, but God had purposed the contrary. From whence observe,
The word then doth signifie a sentence passing upon him, That he must die. This he had received; but from whom? Not from God, for God delivered him, nor from the Magistrate, there was no such Decree that we read of against him: Therfore it was onely from his own feares, his own thoughts, which maketh him say, He had received it in himself. You see then, that Gods thoughts were others then Paul's. Paul absolutely concluded he should die, but God had purposed the contrary. From whence observe,
That the godly themselves are sometimes greatly deceived about Gods administrations 1to them.
- 1The godly are sometimes deceived about Gods dispensations towards them
They are apt to err in their judgements about Gods dispensation. They gather such conclusions, and make such inferences as are wholly opposite to Gods intentions. Though it be said that the people of God do communicate with Christ in some measure, as with his priestly and Kingly Office, so with his Prophetical, as if they were able to know the mind of God in many things, yet we must take heed that such a principle doth not draw us into spiritual delusions. For nothing is more ordinary even to a godly man, then to take his strong affections and vehement conjectures for impulses and inspirations from God. Paul in this trouble did absolutely conclude, He should die; he had past this sentence upon himself, but God had determined otherwise.