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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 77
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But when once the soul cometh to have more experience of Gods works upon it self, and is more acquainted with the ways of God, then he comes to hope, whereas before he was ready to cast off all in despair. If then God hath from year to year, trained thee up in many experimental discoveries of soul-mercies, and body-mercies; how inexcusable wilt thou be, if thou are ready to be shaken, and to loose thy hold upon every new trouble? Gods promise should be enough to thee; thou needest no more: If a man that is faithful and able should assure thee so much, thou wouldst rest contented. How unworthily then dost thou deal with God, when his word and his works put together, yet do not compose thy heart? Oh remember! is not he the God, that created light out of such darkness, as did once cover thy soul? Is no• he the God, that helped in such a trouble? that came in with so seasonable a deliverance? and when thou knowest his name thus, wilt thou not trust in him?
But when once the soul cometh to have more experience of Gods works upon it selfe, and is more acquainted with the wayes of God, then he comes to hope, whereas before he was ready to cast off all in despaire. If then God hath from year to year, trained thee up in many experimentall discoveries of soul-mercies, and body-mercis; how inexcusable wilt thou be, if thou are ready to be shaken, and to loose thy hold upon every new trouble? Gods promise should be enough to thee; thou needest no more: If a man that is faithfull and able should assure thee so much, thou wouldst rest contented. How unworthily then dost thou deale with God, when his word and his workes put together, yet do not compose thy heart? Oh remember! is not he the God, that created light out of such darkness, as did once cover thy soul? Is no• he the God, that helped in such a trouble? that came in with so seasonable a deliverance? and when thou knowest his name thus, wilt thou not trust in him?
3. It is a special way to keep the heart in a serene and quiet frame, to