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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 10
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Lastly, There is variety in the occasions, and in the time. In the occasions, ⟨p. 44⟩one affliction hath been an occasion to some such or such a correction upon them; a wife may sometimes be an occasion to her husband, or an husband to a 1wife: Yea, a maid-servant was to Naaman both an occasion of his soul and body's health likewise. And thus for time likewise, some are converted sooner, and some later; only you must know, that though there may be this difference, yet in these things all agree.
Lastly, There is variety in the occasions, and in the time. In the occasions, ⟨p. 44⟩one affliction hath been an occasion to some such or such a correction upon them; a wife may sometimes be an occasion to her husband, or an husband to a 1wife: Yea, a maid-servant was to Naaman both an occasion of his soul and body's health likewise. And thus for time likewise, some are converted sooner, and some later; onely you must know, that though there may be this difference, yet in these things all agree.
- 1Why God is pleased to call such different persons, and in such a different way.
1. That the work of grace is wrought invincibly and irresistibly in all. There are none that by their own power, or free-will make themselves to differ from others, all are passive in the work of Regeneration. And