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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 81
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3. Love to God, Because he heareth our prayers, will raise up the heart exceedingly 1to thanksgiving, Psal. 116. 1. I will love the Lord, because he hath heard my supplications. That God should hear the prayers of one so unworthy and polluted as thou art; that God should do thee good, who art so evil; this freeness of his love, this riches of his grace should exceedingly melt thee; it should be like fire that assimilateth every thing into its self: now when this love, like so many coals of fire is in thy breast, it cannot be, but that it will open thy heart, and thy mouth wide to praise the Lord. This is our corruption, we love the mercy it self, but not God that giveth it; we delight in the comforts that are bestowed upon us, but do not rejoice in God from whence they come. If therefore thou findest thy heart frozen and dull; thou canst not raise it up to bless God; meditate much upon the love of God to thee, so vile and unworthy.
3. Love to God, Because he heareth our prayers, will raise up the heart exceedingly 1to thanksgiving, Psal. 116. 1. I will love the Lord, because he hath heard my supplications. That God should hear the prayers of one so unworthy and polluted as thou art; that God should do thee good, who art so evill; this freeness of his love, this riches of his grace should exceedingly melt thee; it should be like fire that assimilateth every thing into its self: now when this love, like so many coales of fire is in thy breast, it cannot be, but that it will open thy heart, and thy mouth wide to praise the Lord. This is our corruption, we love the mercy it self, but not God that giveth it; we delight in the comforts that are bestowed upon us, but do not rejoyce in God from whence they come. If therefore thou findest thy heart frozen and dull; thou canst not raise it up to bless God; meditate much upon the love of God to thee, so vile and unworthy.
- 13. Love to God.