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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 21
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Wherefore 'tis a Christians Duty to join himself to Church-society; And in what cases he may be excused? What are the false Grounds why some neglect this Duty? The Soul of the poorest Saint is to be regarded, as well as of the richest.
Wherefore 'tis a Christians Duty to joyn himself to Church-society; And in what cases he may be excused? What are the false Grounds why some neglect this Duty? The Soul of the poorest Saint is to be regarded, as well as of the richest.
2 COR. 1. 1. With all the Saints that are in all Achaia.
IT is now full time to conclude this Text. There remain two things more which deserve some consideration:
The first is occasioned by Calvin's Question upon the place, How is it (saith he) that he distinguished Saints from the Church? Did not these Saints embody themselves, that lived in the Province of Achaia? Was it lawful for them to live dispersed, and single lives, not entering into Church communion? To which he answers, That the times might be then so turbulent, and persecution so hot, that they could not gather into a Church, nor have any such public meetings. Now this Interpretation is not necessary. For the Apostle writing to the Church at Ephesus and Coloss, yet doth not use that name, but speaks in the general, To the Saints and faithful Brethren; when yet without question they were in a Church-state there. Yea in his Epistle to the Romans, he makes no mention of them as a Church, but styleth them Saints; which puts Salmeron upon his guesses, Why he doth not give the name of a Church to them? As also, Why he doth not salute Peter their supposed Bishop? Neither may we think that when James and Peter inscribe their Epistles, to the Believers scattered in several Regions, but that they might have occasionally their public meetings to worship God in. Yet though this Exposition be not necessary, we may well