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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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Fourthly, It's not God absolutely considered that is the object of our trusting 1in him. For the Devils and damned in hell, though none need mercy and help more than they do, yet they cannot trust in him. Therefore God relatively considered, as revealing himself to his people, is the object of their hope, and these Attributes or Properties do especially sustain our trusting in him.
Fourthly, It's not God absolutely considered that is the object of our trusting 1in him. For the Devils and damned in hell, though none need mercy and help more than they doe, yet they cannot trust in him. Therefore God relatively considered, as revealing himself to his people, is the object of their hope, and these Attributes or Properties do especially sustain our trusting in him.
- 14. It is not God as absolutely, but relatively considered, that is the object of our trust. 1. As he is an infinite true and everlasting God.
1. That he is the infinite, true and ever living God. Upon this ground to trust in Idols, to trust in riches, to trust in men, though never so great, is forbidden, not only as a sin, but as a vain thing; uncertain riches they are, Idols are vanities, they are nothing. Man hath his breath in his nostrils; and therefore it is foolish to trust in such things; but God being the Jehovah, and Eternal, even the Everlasting God, the same for ever; therefore it is that he only must be trusted in. Are thy creatures a Jehovah? Have they an infinite being? Are they from everlasting to everlasting? No certainly; then it is Idolatry to put trust in them.
1. That he is the infinite, true and ever living God. Upon this ground to trust in Idols, to trust in riches, to trust in men, though never so great, is forbidden, not only as a sin, but as a vain thing; uncertain riches they are, Idols are vanities, they are nothing. Man hath his breath in his nostrils; and therefore it is foolish to trust in such things; but God being the Jehovah, and Eternal, even the Everlasting God, the same for ever; therefore it is that he onely must be trusted in. Are thy creatures a Jehovah? Have they an infinite being? Are they from everlasting to everlasting? No certainly; then it is Idolatry to put trust in them.