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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
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. 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
2. Though afflictions may be an occasion and a motive, yet it's the word of God that is the only ordinary means of our conversion.
Now the Reasons why God useth these various dispensations to all sorts, may be,
First, To show the freeness of Grace. For if one sort of persons only be converted, it might be thought some merit or desert were in them, which was not in others.
First, To shew the freeness of Grace. For if one sort of persons onely be converted, it might be thought some merit or desert were in them, which was not in others.