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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 18: SERM, XVIII.
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Use of Instruction to Believers, who are the Church of God, to consider 1that title and relation they are in as such. Though great, though rich, though honourable, yet let it not be accounted equal to the being one of Gods Church. If the Devil should show thee the glory of all the world, promising to bestow it on thee, upon condition thou renouncest thy Church interest, and Church membership, with great indignation refuse it. What high esteem was put upon the being a Roman Citizen? Paul stood upon his Roman freedom in a particular case; but this is nothing to be of that free City, which is Jerusalem from above, even in this Earth. By meditating on this, thou wilt be more thankful to God, that he hath made thee one of his Church, than if he had given all the Turkish Empire to thee, for that is but as Luther said, Mica canny, a crumb to the dog, in respect of the children's bread.
Use of Instruction to Believers, who are the Church of God, to consider 1that title and relation they are in as such. Though great, though rich, though honourable, yet let it not be accounted equal to the being one of Gods Church. If the Devil should shew thee the glory of all the world, promising to bestow it on thee, upon condition thou renouncest thy Church interest, and Church membership, with great indignation refuse it. What high esteem was put upon the being a Roman Citizen? Paul stood upon his Roman freedom in a particular case; but this is nothing to be of that free City, which is Jerusalem from above, even in this Earth. By meditating on this, thou wilt be more thankfull to God, that he hath made thee one of his Church, than if he had given all the Turkish Empire to thee, for that is but as Luther said, Mica cani, a crum to the dog, in respect of the childrens bread.
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Again, The consideration of a Church-privilege and interest, will make thee most to attend to that, in disposing and settling thy self, when at liberty.