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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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whereas all these are but a Fashion, a Show that passeth away. Thus when we would express the glory of a man, we say, he appeared in Great State. Now no word is so improper as that; it is as if you should call a shadow a substance, or say, the substance of a shadow; or as if running should be called standing still. The Scripture expresseth it more fully, when Act. 25. 23. Agrippa and Bernice are said to appear [Greek or Hebrew], With great pomp, we translate; in the original it is, With a great fantasy or apparition. The word [Greek or Hebrew] is applied in Scripture to apparitions of Spirits, which quickly vanish away. Now how contradictory is it to call a fantasy a State, as if we should call a feather which flieth up and down, a mountain that abideth, and cannot be removed? Seeing therefore all earthly greatness is thus fluid and ambulatory, how can we put any trust therein?
whereas all these are but a Fashion, a Shew that passeth away. Thus when we would expresse the glory of a man, we say, he appeared in Great State. Now no word is so improper as that; it is as if you should call a shadow a substance, or say, the substance of a shadow; or as if running should be called standing still. The Scripture expresseth it more fully, when Act. 25. 23. Agrippa and Bernice are said to appear 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, With great pomp, we translate; in the original it is, With a great phantasie or apparition. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is applied in Scripture to apparitions of Spirits, which quickly vanish away. Now how contradictory is it to call a phantasie a State, as if we should call a feather which flieth up and down, a mountain that abideth, and cannot be removed? Seeing therefore all earthly greatnesse is thus fluid and ambulatory, how can we put any trust therein?
Lastly, Therefore is God the ground of our trusting, Because he is only