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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 68
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1. That a man being a very infirm and weak miserable thing, is therefore necessitated to trust in some thing or other. Our very trusting doth denote 1our great impotency; for God because he is omnipotent, wise, alsufficient•, and happy in himself, therefore he cannot trust in any, he is able to bring about what he willeth; but the rational Creature, even because a Creature, whether Men or Angels, do necessarily put their trust some where; so that what the 2centre is to the stone in its motion it is restless till it come thither; Thus the soul of a man is in restless motions and constant trepidations till it fix it self upon that object it trusteth to, and when it is there, the soul is no longer in motu, but in quiet. The very nature then of trusting, and the actings thereof do proclaim thy inability and insufficiency. It is because thou art a depending Creature, and not like God allsufficient, that thou art necessitated to trust in some thing without.
1. That a man being a very infirme and weak miserable thing, is therefore necessitated to trust in some thing or other. Our very trusting doth denote 1our great impotency; for God because he is omnipotent, wise, alsufficient•, and happy in himself, therefore he cannot trust in any, he is able to bring about what he willeth; but the rationall Creature, even because a Creature, whether Men or Angels, do necessarily put their trust some where; so that what the 2center is to the stone in its motion it is restless till it come thither; Thus the soul of a man is in restless motions and constant trepidations till it fix it self upon that object it trusteth to, and when it is there, the soul is no longer in motu, but in quiete. The very nature then of trusting, and the actings thereof do proclaime thy inability and insufficiency. It is because thou art a depending Creature, and not like God allsufficient, that thou art necessitated to trust in some thing without.