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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 16
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SERM. XVI.
Of the City of Corinth. God sometimes gathers a Church amongst the most profane people. A Church, though many ways defiled, may be a Church still, as it was with the Corinthians.
Of the City of Corinth. God sometimes gathers a Church amongst the most prophane people. A Church, though many wayes defiled, may be a Church still, as it was with the Corinthians.
2 COR. 1. 1. To the Church of God, which is at Corinth.
The next thing to be treated of, is the Description of this Church by the place where it is, viz. at Corinth. And that we may understand the great grace and power of God in gathering a Church to himself out of this City; it's good to observe, what the Learned speak of it. It was called so (they say) from Corinthus the son of Orestes, or of Pelops; but when they had in a dishonourable manner abused some Roman Ambassadors; they were destroyed by a Roman named Lucius Mummius, who from his victory over them was called Corinthiacus; but Augustus taking delight in the place restored it, and sent a Colony thither to inhabit it. And it's plain by