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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 6
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That the Lord Christ is a Jesus, a Saviour to his people.1
- 1The Lord Christ is a Jesus, a Saviour to his people.
This truth should be sweeter than the honey or the honey-comb to the lost sinner. Christ hath some names of terror and dread, as when he is called a Lion and a Judge; some again of love and comfort, as this of Jesus, which, as Bernard saith, is, In ore mel, in aure melos; not that the name, or the sound of words is such; and therefore that superstitious custom of bowing at the name of Jesus, was not for some hundred of years after Christ, and hath no Scripture institution. But the Office signified by name is to be cordially improved by the believing soul.
This truth should be sweeter than the honey or the honey-comb to the lost sinner. Christ hath some names of terrour and dread, as when he is called a Lion and a Judge; some again of love and comfort, as this of Jesus, which, as Bernard saith, is, In ore mel, in aure melos; not that the name, or the sound of words is such; and therefore that superstitious custome of bowing at the name of Jesus, was not for some hundred of years after Christ, and hath no Scripture institution. But the Office signified by name is to be cordially improved by the believing soul.
Therefore to explain this, Consider•