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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 74
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In this verse then we see Paul got above, and conquering that weakness and imbecility which he found in himself, and acknowledging the goodness of God, and his power to him, Paul found God able to raise the dead, by what he had done to him in his particular.
In this verse then we see Paul got above, and conquering that weaknesse and imbecillity which he found in himself, and acknowledging the goodnesse of God, and his power to him, Paul found God able to raise the dead, by what he had done to him in his particular.
In the Text then we may take notice of,
1. Paul's solemn acknowledgement of the goodness and power of God to him in delivering of him. And 2. His Encouragement from thence to trust in God for the future.
In the former part we have his celebration of Gods goodness to him; and this he aggravateth from the hopelessness and desperateness of his estate, which he calleth a Death, not a sickness, but a death. Yea Chrysostom observeth, That he doth not say, Who hath delivered us from such dangers, but such death, to show the extremity. Chrysostom reads it in the plural number [Greek or Hebrew], deaths; but the general Copy is otherwise. Now Paul doth not only call it death, but [Greek or Hebrew], such death. The word is used in the New Testament about three times, besides in this place; and it is always applied to the great aggravation of a thing, so as we are to admire it, as if the like had never been heard of. Thus