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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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Secondly, For the Officers of Christ. In worldly considerations, how low 1and despised are they? But to those who are spiritual, and acknowledge the Order and Institutions of Christ, they esteem them, as the Stewards of God, and the Ministers of Christ, insomuch that it's the cause of contemning Religion, when their Office is despised. Paul was so received by the Galatians, as if he had been an Angel from Heaven; Yea, Christ himself; They would have pulled out their eyes to have pleasured him. And we see in the after ages of the Church, how much the Ministers of Christ were had in esteem, insomuch that it grew unto an excess. Now though the carnal, worldly man beareth no such respect to them, yet those, who are led by Scripture, do highly esteem them, and that for their works sake.
Secondly, For the Officers of Christ. In worldly considerations, how low 1and despised are they? But to those who are spiritual, and acknowledge the Order and Institutions of Christ, they esteem them, as the Stewards of God, and the Ministers of Christ, insomuch that it's the cause of contemning Religion, when their Office is despised. Paul was so received by the Galatians, as if he had been an Angel from Heaven; Yea, Christ himself; They would have pulled out their eyes to have pleasured him. And we see in the after ages of the Church, how much the Ministers of Christ were had in esteem, insomuch that it greew unto an excesse. Now though the carnal, worldly man beareth no such respect to them, yet those, who are led by Scripture, doe highly esteeme them, and that for their workes sake.
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Thirdly, The Duties prescribed by Christ, they are such as the world 1condemneth, either for folly or pusillanimity, as, Faith in Christ alone for salvation, self-denial, readiness to take up our Cross; To love our enemies, to do good to those that hate us: Are not these such things that the magnanimous and gallant spirits of the world do disdain?