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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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3. There are those who are of men only, but not of God; and they are all such, 1who by unlawful and sinful ways get into the Ministry, and so have an outward Authority and Office, though they be wholly unworthy, and unfit in themselves. These are indeed by the will of God; but it is a permissive will only, or by his just anger against an unworthy people.
3. There are those who are of men only, but not of God; and they are all such, 1who by unlawfull and sinfull wayes get into the Ministry, and so have an outward Authority and Office, though they be wholly unworthy, and unfit in themselves. These are indeed by the will of God; but it is a permissive will onely, or by his just anger against an unworthy people.
- 13. Some are of men only, not at all of God.
Lastly, There are those, who have neither Call from God, or men; that are 1Preachers neither by the will of God, or of men, but their own self-will. These are intruders, that approve themselves, that judge themselves fit without the advice of others, These run and are not sent.
- 14. Others have their call neither from God nor men.
In the next place, Let us consider how comprehensive this is, when Paul saith, An Apostle by the will of God, and it is not useless: for every Minister ought to say so, I am a Minister of the Gospel by the will of God; and the people ought to say, Such an one is our Pastor by the will of God. It is God that had a special hand that he should be our Pastor, and we his flock. And