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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 22
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Hence in the second place, Till a man be regenerated, till he be made a new creature, and endowed with an heavenly heart, he is no suitable subject for these heavenly things. Every one then as he is affected and disposed, so he judgeth; if earthly, then all his affections move that way; if heavenly, then they are turned the contrary way. As you see in mixed and compounded bodies, what element doth most predominate, accordingly is their motion, either upward or downward; now in this regenerate person, his nature is now changed, and he hath a spiritual resurrection, that as the body, when that shall rise, will lose its gravity and burdensomness; for we shall meet the Lord in the Air, even with our bodies. So the soul in this life made partaker of a spiritual resurrection, hath cast off those burdens and clogs, that did press it down to the creature, and ascends up to communion with God and Christ.
Hence in the second place, Till a man be regenerated, till he be made a new creature, and endowed with an heavenly heart, he is no sutable subject for these heavenly things. Every one then as he is affected and disposed, so he judgeth; if earthly, then all his affections move that way; if heavenly, then they are turned the contrary way. As you see in mixed and compounded bodies, what element doth most predominate, accordingly is their motion, either upward or downward; now in this regenerate person, his nature is now changed, and he hath a spiritual resurrection, that as the body, when that shall rise, will lose its gravity and burdensomness; for we shall meet the Lord in the Air, even with our bodies. So the soul in this life made partaker of a spiritual resurrection, hath cast off those burdens and clogs, that did press it down to the creature, and ascends up to communion with God and Christ.
And besides this general Cause, there are some peculiar qualifications, which 1provoke the godly man to esteem the Grace and Peace of God above all things As,
- 1What are those things that peculiarly move the godly to prefer spirituals before temporals