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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 70
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The second Observation from the words was, That even the Paul's, the most holy and eminent men, are prone to this sin of trusting in themselves. The great end why God did thus exercise Paul, it was to prevent this sin above any other. Paul (you heard) had no riches, no honours, no earthly power to confide in. Therefore his parts, his revelations, his graces, from these did arise his danger.
THe second Observation from the words was, That even the Paul's, the most holy and eminent men, are prone to this sinne of trusting in themselves. The great end why God did thus exercise Paul, it was to prevent this sinne above any other. Paul (you heard) had no riches, no honours, no earthly power to confide in. Therefore his parts, his revelations, his graces, from these did arise his danger.
But before we come to explain the Doctrine and amplify it, one Question is to 1be answered, and that is, Whether the Apostle speak this in regard of his own person, or by a figure assumes the person of other godly men? For that is many times the custom of the Apostle to join himself in number with such, whose infirmities he doth not partake of, or is guilty of, as 1 Cor. 11. 31. If we would judge our selves, we should not be judged of the Lord, putting himself in the number of those who came unworthily to the Lords Supper. For Chrysostom doth so admire the high degree of grace in Paul, that he thinketh Paul doth not say this, because of himself, but by way of instruction to others. There is also a late learned Writer (Amyraldus Consid. in 7. cap. ad Romanos, & contra Gull. Rivetum.) who thinketh it an assertion no way worthy of reproof, if we say Paul had even in this life more grace than some glorified Saints may have in Heaven. So that he will acknowledge Paul, if not the other Apostles, by a singular and extraordinary privilege, to have obtained perfection. From whence he gathers, that to expound that Rom. 7