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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 14
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Secondly, Even Heathens by hearing of the Word preached, have by the Grace of God been converted, and so the Word preached, which was at first instrumental to convert them, doth afterwards by way of a sign or mark, confirm them therein. The Apostle tells us of an unbeliever, coming into Church-meetings, who is so wrought upon, that he crieth out, Verily God is here, 1 Cor. 14. 25.
And as to the Believer the notes of a Church are necessary, for the further confirming and establishing of him. For seeing that every Party or Sect saith, They are the true Church, and with them only is Communion to be had, condemning other meetings, as false, as the Synagogue of Satan, and as necessarily damning all those that continue in that Communion different from them: It is thereby of great use, that we should have such Notes or Marks, to conclude that where such are, certainly there is a Church; for we are not to be Sceptics or Seekers. When the Scripture commands us, To tell the Church, Mat. 18. To conjoin our selves to the Church of God, it plainly intimateth, that such a Society may be known. Even as there was a Star to guide the Wise men unto Christ.
And as to the Believer the notes of a Church are necessary, for the further confirming and establishing of him. For seeing that every Party or Sect saith, They are the true Church, and with them onely is Communion to be had, condemning other meetings, as false, as the Synagogue of Satan, and as necessarily damning all those that continue in that Communion different from them: It is thereby of great use, that we should have such Notes or Marks, to conclude that where such are, certainly there is a Church; for we are not to be Scepticks or Seekers. When the Scripture commands us, To tell the Church, Mat. 18. To conjoyn our selves to the Church of God, it plainly intimateth, that such a Society may be known. Even as there was a Star to guide the Wisemen unto Christ.