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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 8
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It is not proper in this place to enter upon those great and large Disputes, which are de voluntate, or of the will of God. Though it might be operosum, yet it would not be operae pretium, especially in this place, where it is mentioned upon a particular consideration, viz. as that whereby Paul was made an Apostle. Paul doth not here attribute any thing to himself, but all to the good will of God; for [Greek or Hebrew] here is as much as [Greek or Hebrew], his beneplacitum, his good pleasure, both approving and procuring Paul's Apostleship. From whence observe,
It is not proper in this place to enter upon those great and large Disputes, which are de voluntate, or of the will of God. Though it might be operosum, yet it would not be operae pretium, especially in this place, where it is mentioned upon a particular consideration, viz. as that whereby Paul was made an Apostle. Paul doth not here attribute any thing to himself, but all to the good will of God; for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 here is as much as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his beneplacitum, his good pleasure, both approving and procuring Paul's Apostleship. From whence observe,
That it is the mere will and good pleasure of God that calleth us to any privilege 1or office in his Church.
That it is the meer will and good pleasure of God that calleth us to any priviledge 1or office in his Church.
- 1It is the mere will and good pleasure of God that calls us to any office or privilege in the Church.It is the meer will and good pleasure of God that calls us to any office or priviledge in the Church.