A30238:1847
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 88
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This man is not far from the Kingdom of Heaven; this man is in a way to be secured; But the self-righteous man, that supposeth himself good, it is the first principle with him, that he will never suffer to be questioned; this man is remediless as to humane appearance, Such a presumptuous man in practicals, is like an Heretic in doctrinals; and so after the first and second admonition, we may even reject, knowing that he doth willingly damn himself. Be sure then to take heed of this rock, at which so many have split themselves.
This man is not farre from the Kingdom of Heaven; this man is in a way to be secured; But the self-righteous man, that supposeth himself good, it is the first principle with him, that he will never suffer to be questioned; this man is remediless as to humane appearance, Such a presumptuous man in practicals, is like an Heretick in doctrinals; and so after the first and second admonition, we may even reject, knowing that he doth willingly damne himselfe. Be sure then to take heed of this rock, at which so many have split themselves.
A second cause that must be removed, is, A profane careless spirit; whereby men do not at all matter their souls, nor in what relation they do stand in towards 1God. If their bodies be well, if their worldly affairs prosper, then they say, Soul, take thy ease. But as for their spiritual condition, whether God be reconciled, or an enemy, whether yet they have been ever taken off that natural and cursed estate they were born in, they never look after it. Oh foolish and brutish man! If the Spirit of God shall once convince thee of thy sinful and dangerous estate, of the curses of the Law which may fall upon thee every moment, then thou mayest have no rest day or night, till thou obtainest some assurance herein.
A second cause that must be removed, is, A prophane carelesse spirit; whereby men do not at all matter their souls, nor in what relation they do stand in towards 1