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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 73
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Thus we have heard in what particulars this Doctrine is true; let us now 1consider what is implied in this expression, God raiseth the dead. And
Thus we have heard in what particulars this Doctrine is true; let us now 1consider what is implyed in this expression, God raiseth the dead. And
- 1What is implied in the expression God raiseth from the dead. 1. That Gods own Children may be brought into helpless and hopeless conditions.What is implyed in the expression God raiseth from the dead. 1. That Gods own Children may be brought into helpless and hopeless conditions.
1. It supposeth That Gods own Children may be brought into an helpless and hopeless estate. They may be in a Wilderness, so that if God doth not extraordinarily provide Manna for them, they will perish; for you must know that this is attributed to God, chiefly for the godly mans sake. For though the wicked may sometimes be delivered from imminent dangers, yet that is by the general providence of God, who doth in Heaven and Earth what he pleaseth; but the godly are delivered from the special love of God, and his peculiar promise to them, of being their God: So that it is in this case, as it is in the Resurrection, all men shall be raised from the dead, even the wicked as well as the just; only the wicked shall be raised by the power of God as a just judge; but the godly as Members of Christ, and from that special Covenant of grace God, made with them; and upon this foundation Luke 20. 37. doth Christ prove the Resurrection, because he is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. These are mentioned rather then Noah or Enoch, when yet God was also their God, because to those the promise of grace was either at first made, or afterwards repeated. As therefore because God is a God in Covenant, he will raise up their dead bodies; so from this relation he