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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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And because a natural man wants the life of faith, which would settle him on God only; therefore he runeth out to innumerable Crutches to help himself with; as some Creatures for want of blood abound with many feet to help them in their motion. Now the Scripture doth suggest most of these to us. And
And because a naturall man wants the life of faith, which would settle him on God only; therefore he runeth out to innumerable Crutches to help himselfe with; as some Creatures for want of bloud abound with many feet to help them in their motion. Now the Scripture doth suggest most of these to us. And
1. Which is indeed the worst of all, is, When a man trusteth in his own wickedness, and beareth himself up with that. There are such Sons of 1Belial, such monsters of impiety, that do only comfort and support themselves with the iniquities they have committed, Isai. 30. 12. Some are there sharply reproved for trusting in oppression, in perverseness, and fraud, and stay thereon: An expression the Scripture doth much delight to use, when it speaketh of trusting. Here you see because men are subtle, and powerful, and successful in wickedness, they are apt to trust in this; but see what bitterness will be in the latter end, Verse 13. Their iniquity should be like a Wall swelling out ready to make a breach, when a man thinketh to lean on it, presently it falleth and overwhelmeth him. The Psalmist also Psalm 62. 10. speaking of the vanity of men even in the highest degree, he adviseth them not to trust in oppression and robbery, in unjust and sinful ways. Not to say with him in the Poet, Virtus mihi numen, & ensis, quem teneo, My Manhood and my Sword is my God; for how often hath God by tragical instances in the world made it appear that such mighty Nimrods had no more then à Spiders Web to trust in: To trust then in sinful ways is the highest degree of folly.