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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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The second unlawful ground of keeping from Communion with Church-assemblies, is, A profane Atheistical disposition, that look upon a Church, and 1a Church-assembly, as humane devices, to keep men in awe; or if they be not so eminently Atheistical, yet their love to their lusts and pleasures, to the world and contents thereof, make them weary of the Sabbaths, and public Ordinances; ⟨p. 94⟩as those in Amos 8. 5. When will the Sabbath be over, that we may set forth wheat to sell? How many are there that comes as seldom as ever they can to these public Assemblies, and when they do come, it's but for custom and fashion, not that they ever found any spiritual good, or expect and desire any?
The second unlawfull ground of keeping from Communion with Church-assemblies, is, A prophane Atheistical disposition, that look upon a Church, and 1a Church-assembly, as humane devices, to keep men in awe; or if they be not so eminently Atheistical, yet their love to their lusts and pleasures, to the world and contents thereof, make them weary of the Sabbaths, and publick Ordinances; ⟨p. 94⟩as those in Amos 8. 5. When will the Sabbath be over, that we may set forth wheat to sell? How many are there that comes as seldome as ever they can to these publick Assemblies, and when they do come, it's but for custom and fashion, not that they ever found any spiritual good, or expect and desire any?
- 12. From corrupt dispositions.