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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 19
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WE are now arrived at the last clause in this verse, which containeth a more general Description of those to whom he directs this Epistle. Some Epistles are called Catholic, because not inscribed to any particular Churches or persons, but to the whole Church of God. Others are more particular and local, as this to the Corinthians, yet we see it's not so inscribed to them; but that also, all the adjacent Saints are comprehended in it. Yea, though Paul and others wrote their Epistles to certain Churches and persons, yet they are in some sense Catholic; for they all were written as a perpetual Rule to the whole Church of God, in all ages. So that this Epistle doth concern even the Churches of God in other Nations, as well as that of Corinth, when guilty of such disorder.
WE are now arrived at the last clause in this verse, which containeth a more general Description of those to whom he directs this Epistle. Some Epistles are called Catholick, because not inscribed to any particular Churches or persons, but to the whole Church of God. Others are more particular and local, as this to the Corinthians, yet we see it's not so inscribed to them; but that also, all the adjacent Saints are comprehended in it. Yea, though Paul and others wrote their Epistles to certain Churches and persons, yet they are in some sense Catholick; for they all were written as a perpetual Rule to the whole Church of God, in all ages. So that this Epistle doth concern even the Churches of God in other Nations, as well as that of Corinth, when guilty of such disorder.
So that in the Inscription, which is more general than the former clause, we may take notice,
1. Of the Persons to whom Paul writeth, and they are described by their qualifications, Saints. 2. By a Note of Universality, All the Saints. There is none so mean or inconsiderable, but the Apostle writeth as well to such a poor contemptible Saint, as well as to the greatest and most eminent. 3. There is the place where, Which are in all Achaia.