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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 78
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The first enemy to it is Presumption, and that is, When men do not trust in God, in his way. We represent God to our selves in our own carnal imaginations, and then we trust in him, which is indeed nothing else, but to trust in our vain lying hearts. Now this presumption, which hath the appearance of trusting in God, but is not so, may be discovered these 1ways:
The first enemy to it is Presumption, and that is, When men do not trust in God, in his way. We represent God to our selves in our own carnal imaginations, and then we trust in him, which is indeed nothing else, but to trust in our vaine lying hearts. Now this presumption, which hath the appearance of trusting in God, but is not so, may be discovered these 1wayes:
- 1Signs of presumption. 1. When we walk not by Scripture-light.
1. When we do not judge of God according to the Scripture-discovery made of him, when we walk not by Scripture-light. There can be no trusting in God without a true knowledge of him out of his Word. Now if you observe ignorance herein is the cause of all that presumption which drowneth many souls in perdition. Take the most profane and profligate wretch, who like ⟨p. 351⟩Cain almost have the marks of Gods displeasure against them, palpably manifesting themselves, yet they will tell you, they trust in God for mercy, they rest on Christ to be saved: Is not all this, because they do not know God out of his Word? If they did, would not they find there, that he is angry with the wicked every day, That he is a consuming fire; That if a man regard iniquity in his heart, God will not hear such a mans prayer? Are not these so many thunder-bolts to strike thee out of thy presumption?