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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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First, That it cannot be denied, but that some may be converted from their youth; that they have had the holy fear of God upon them, ever since they were able to understand any thing. 1 King. 18. 12. Obadiah told Elisha, He feared the Lord from his youth. And thus John Baptist did partake of the holy Ghost, while he was in his mothers womb: and it is a most blessed mercy thus to have our spiritual and natural life together: They are preserved from those wounds that others go halting with to the grave. Yet
In the second place, They are not to rest upon this, who have lived civilly from their youth, and followed their good education. For good Education is one thing, and Regeneration is another thing. The one is but external, and maketh only an outward Reformation; but the other is internal, and makes a spiritual change, Mat. 19. 20. We read of one, He had kept all the commandments from his youth; who said, he spoke according to his education and instruction. For the Pharisees taught, That the Law required no other obedience then what is outward. Now he had kept himself from any outward pollution, or gross transgression. But we have a remarkable instance in King Joash, 2 Chron. 23. 2. Jehoiada a godly man brought up that King in a godly manner, and he did that which was right all the while Jehoiada lived, but when he died, than he hearkened to the counsel of others, that were the means of his ruin. Therefore consider, whether thou hast any more then the remnants of good education upon thee; in time of temptation thy rottenness will be discovered. But
In the second place, They are not to rest upon this, who have lived civilly from their youth, and followed their good education. For good Education is one thing, and Regeneration is another thing. The one is but external, and maketh onely an outward Reformation; but the other is internal, and makes a spiritual change,