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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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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.
I shall first consider the Qualification, Saints. He giveth this title to all that were of this Church; even as in the former Epistle, he saith, They were sanctified in Jesus Christ. Now the Question is, How the Apostle could give the title 1of Saints to to all the Corinthians, with those in Achaia; for they both seem guilty of the same sins; and therefore from this Epistle directed to them, when yet they were so foully polluted. Was the incestuous person, before he repented? Were those unclean persons, that had not humbled themselves for their sins, and Paul was afraid he should find them such when he came? Were those Saints? Were such, who denied the Resurrection, yea that had no knowledge of God, as Paul said of some, to whose shame he spake it, were these Saints?
- 1How the Apostle could call the Corinthians Saints, when many of them were so foully polluted.
To this Austin of old answered, and so some of late, That the Apostle speaks this generally of the whole body, because some amongst them were Saints. The denomination being from the most worthy part. So that they conclude of this as a Rule to interpret Scripture by, To understand that of some parts, which yet is attributed to to the whole. And for this reason (they say) it is, That the Apostle writing to some Churches, as to this of Corinth, doth sometimes speak of them, as if they were all godly; and at another time, he reproveth them so, as if they were all blame-worthy. Thus because some were Saints indeed, therefore