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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 71
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In the second place, There is none can trust in God, but such as are regenerated, 1and are made new creatures. For as none have true saving faith but such, so none have spiritual and heavenly dependence upon God but such. It is an easy matter to say, We trust in God, when we have the helps and supply of all creatures; but when all props are removed, then to rest on God, as securely and quietly, as if thou hadst all external abundance; this cannot be done but by a gracious heart. Therefore the unregenerate man, he doth but delude himself. It is not God that he trusteth in, but his wealth, his power, some refuge or other he hath in the creature; neither can he live upon higher principles. Hence we have that place thrice mentioned, The just shall live by faith. Faith is trusting there; and it is applied both to our life, in respect of temporal things, in afflictions, as Heb. 10. 38. as also in respect of spiritual things, especially our justification in the sight of God, as Gal. 3. 11. It is the just man then, and the sanctified man alone, who can live by trusting on God only. Sin is such an heavy load, that it presseth down, and maketh a man creep upon the ground. Now all those creatures that did so, were unclean by the Law of God.
In the second place, There is none can trust in God, but such as are regenerated, 1and are made new creatures. For as none have true saving faith but such, so none have spiritual and heavenly dependance upon God but such. It is an easie matter to say, We trust in God, when we have the helpes and supply of all creatures; but when all props are removed, then to rest on God, as securely and quietly, as if thou hadst all external abundance; this cannot be done but by a gracious heart. Therefore the unregenerate man, he doth but delude himself. It is not God that he trusteth in, but his wealth, his power, some refuge or other he hath in the creature; neither can he live upon higher principles. Hence we have that place thrice mentioned, The just shall live by faith. Faith is trusting there; and it is applied both to our life, in respect of temporal things, in afflictions, as