A30238:1769
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 84
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To clear this truth, let us first show what is required to this glorying, and then 1in what respects it is lawful and allowed us. And for the former,
To clear this truth, let us first shew what is required to this glorying, and then 1in what respects it is lawfull and allowed us. And for the former,
- 1What is required to our glorying in the gifts and graces we have received from God. 1. An high esteem of our graces.
First, It is necessary to this rejoicing and glorying, in the first place, That we have an high esteem of the excellency and worth of that grace we discover to be in us. If so be we are to rejoice in these outward mercies, which yet are only for the body, what matter of joy should it be, to find those spiritual workings of Gods Spirit in us, which are of eternal concernment? What Solomon saith concerning the esteem of wisdom, which is indeed nothing but grace, we should all make good, Prov. 2. 4. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures. That soul then, which can rejoice in the discovery of grace, must esteem of it more than all the treasures of the world: To say, O Lord, I had rather find my self sanctified, I had rather see the powerful workings of grace upon me, then to be made the greatest or richest man in the world; we have many exhortations to examine our selves, and try our hearts, to see if we can find this precious jewel in our souls. Now none will be cordial to examine and search herein, but those who look upon it as the greatest treasure. Did the woman in the Gospel make such diligent search for a lost groat only, and call her neighbours to rejoice with her, when she had found it? How large and boundless then should our thoughts be about the excellency of grace? And indeed to the godly soul this is the great question it labours to study, and to resolve, Whether it be in the state of grace or no, knowing that this only is the most blessed and happy estate in the world.