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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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But you may say, What if a Minister should at first enter into this Office 1merely by the instigation of a corrupt will? Nothing at first made him intend the Ministry but hopes of preferment, and getting a livelihood in the world?
But you may say, What if a Minister should at first enter into this Office 1meerly by the instigation of a corrupt will? Nothing at first made him intend the Ministry but hopes of preferment, and getting a livelihood in the world?
- 1Concerning those who enter upon the Ministry only upon carnal and corrupt motives.
I answer, It is indeed a most blessed thing, when it is with a Minister, as with Paul; he was made an Apostle at the same time, when God did also inwardly reveal his grace to him: when from the youth the workings of sanctification, and zeal to convert souls, hath put them upon the Ministry; but where such corrupt principles did prevail, and were the only motives to be a Preacher of the Gospel, there must be great humiliation for them: and no doubt many godly Ministers of the Gospel have greatly bewailed their sinful entrance into the Ministry, that they had only corrupt and carnal motives stirring them up thereunto; and when this is done, no doubt God will accept of their labours, and they be made the more zealous for God.
I answer, It is indeed a most blessed thing, when it is with a Minister, as with Paul; he was made an Apostle at the same time, when God did also inwardly reveal his grace to him: when from the youth the workings of sanctification, and zeal to convert souls, hath put them upon the Ministry; but where such corrupt principles did prevail, and were the only motives to be a Preacher of the Gospel, there must be great humiliation for them: and no doubt many godly Ministers of the Gospel have greatly bewailed their sinfull entrance into the Ministry, that they had only corrupt and carnal motives stirring them up thereunto; and when this is done, no doubt God will accept of their labours, and they be made the more zealous for God.