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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 98
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. To enlighten thee, to instruct and teach thee in the ways of God. For this end they are called Lights and Teachers. Observe then, if there be not many that have got knowledge in the truths of God, when thou art ignorant how many by thee do know the principles of Religion; the Ministry hath been instrumental to awaken them: so that those who were ignorant do now understand: this will condemn thee, who livest in thy sottish ignorance.
1. To enlighten thee, to instruct and teach thee in the wayes of God. For this end they are called Lights and Teachers. Observe then, if there be not many that have got knowledge in the truths of God, when thou art ignorant how many by thee do know the principles of Religion; the Ministry hath been instrumental to awaken them: so that those who were ignorant do now understand: this will condemn thee, who livest in thy sottish ignorance.
2. The success of the Ministry is seen, In the conversion and reforming of men from their evil ways. To turn swine into sheep, weeds into flowers, as we read of three thousand converted by one Sermon that Peter made. If then, God hath blessed our labours in this kind, though it should be but to one man in the Congregation, this will be a testimony against you. Was not he once profane, as thou art? Did not he follow all excess of riot, as thou doest? Did not he deride and scorn at the power of godliness, as thou doest? but now he is wholly altered, now he dare not do the things he once did: Now he crieth out, Oh such a Sermon struck to my very heart, such a passage was like a thunderbolt! Why then is it that thou doest not follow such a man, and do as he doth? He would not be the same worldling, the same profane person he was once for a world. Oh remember this mans conversion, this mans change will be a testimony against thee!