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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the next place, Let us consider the Reasons, why the gracious heart doth 1thus desire heavenly things above all outward advantages whatsoever. And
- 1The Reasons of it.
First, Because these spiritual objects have only universal sufficiency and fullness in them, to satisfy and content the heart. If God be reconciled, if he be our God, what then can be wanting to our happiness? Thus David acknowledged, when he said, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and none in earth in comparison of thee? And Psal. •3. how contented and happy is he, in having God his God? The creatures they are but as a drop, they have only a limited goodness, but God is the ocean, there is nothing wanting. Hence it is, that because the glorified Saints have a beatifical vision of God, therefore they cannot sin, they cannot immoderately desire any thing else.
First, Because these spiritual objects have only universal sufficiency and fulness in them, to satisfie and content the heart. If God be reconciled, if he be our God, what then can be wanting to our happiness? Thus David acknowledged, when he said, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and none in earth in comparison of thee? And Psal. •3. how contented and happy is he, in having God his God? The creatures they are but as a drop, they have only a limited goodness, but God is the ocean, there is nothing wanting. Hence it is, that because the glorified Saints have a beatifical vision of God, therefore they cannot sin, they cannot immoderately desire any thing else.