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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 7
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Use 2. To you that are the people. If we have our Commission from Christ, 1then take heed how you reject the Word we speak from him. The Apostle makes a comparison between him that refused Moses speaking, and Christ speaking, and saith, How much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy of, Heb. 10. 29. Every Sermon your condemnation will rise higher upon you. Think not that our words will pass away: No, God saith by the Prophet, They shall not return in vain: for if it be not a saving and converting word, it will be an hardening and condemning one. No wonder if our Saviour spake one Parable to this very purpose, and concludeth, Take heed how you hear, Mark 4. 24.
Use 2. To you that are the people. If we have our Commission from Christ, 1then take heed how you reject the Word we speak from him. The Apostle makes a comparison between him that refused Moses speaking, and Christ speaking, and saith, How much forer punishment shall he be thought worthy of, Heb. 10. 29. Every Sermon your condemnation will rise higher upon you. Think not that our words will passe away: No, God saith by the Prophet, They shall not return in vain: for if it be not a saving and converting word, it will be an hardning and condemning one. No wonder if our Saviour spake one Parable to this very purpose, and concludeth, Take heed how you hear, Mark 4. 24.
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The second thing observable from this relative consideration is, That the Apostle