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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 1
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In the third place, His serviceableness, that was as wonderful, I laboured 1more than they. The Heathens Hercules is not comparable to him. To read how much he did, and how much he suffered for Christ, may make us stand amazed, ⟨p. 4⟩yet still he saith, Not I, but the grace of God, 1 Cor. 15. 10. Chrysostom doth infinitely expatiate upon all occasions in the praise of Paul, but Paul himself was like Moses, whose face shined gloriously, but he did not know it. And thus Paul, though above all others in doing and suffering for Christ, yet accounts of himself as nothing, and gives all to the grace of God; as none preached more than he did, so none wrote more Epistles than he did; he took care of all the Churches. Thus he, who formerly did his utmost to root out the Church of God, is now as zealous and active to establish and propagate it. So that you see three wonderful things in Paul, his sin, his conversion, and his godly life afterwards.
In the third place, His serviceableness, that was as wonderfull, I laboured 1more than they. The Heathens Hercules is not comparable to him. To read how much he did, and how much he suffered for Christ, may make us stand amazed, ⟨p. 4⟩yet still he saith, Not I, but the grace of God, 1 Cor. 15. 10. Chrysostome doth infinitely expatiate upon all occasions in the praise of Paul, but Paul himself was like Moses, whose face shined gloriously, but he did not know it. And thus Paul, though above all others in doing and suffering for Christ, yet accounts of himself as nothing, and gives all to the grace of God; as none preached more than he did, so none wrote more Epistles than he did; he took care of all the Churches. Thus he, who formerly did his utmost to root out the Church of God, is now as zealous and active to establish and propagate it. So that you see three wonderfull things in Paul, his sinne, his conversion, and his godly life afterwards.