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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 23
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 second place, It is used sometimes for the Effects of this Grace. For as mercy is sometimes taken for the attribute in God, and sometimes for the effects of it: So likewise is grace. Hence it is that Gods grace, is sometimes put for the Gospel, and the preaching of the Word. This being merely from his grace, that he vouchsafeth such a mercy to his people, Act. 20. 24. Tit. 2. 11. Sometimes it is taken for the good success and special assistance that God giveth unto the preachers of it, Act. 14. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 10. Yet not I, but the grace of God, viz. assisting and giving success to my ministerial labours.
In the second place, It is used sometimes for the Effects of this Grace. For as mercy is sometimes taken for the attribute in God, and sometimes for the effects of it: So likewise is grace. Hence it is that Gods grace, is sometimes put for the Gospel, and the preaching of the Word. This being meerly from his grace, that he vouchsafeth such a mercy to his people, Act. 20. 24. Tit. 2. 11. Sometimes it is taken for the good success and special assistance that God giveth unto the preachers of it, Act. 14. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 10. Yet not I, but the grace of God, viz. assisting and giving success to my ministerial labours.
Again, It's applied to those common gifts of Gods Spirit, which were so wonderfully vouchsafed in those days, To speak with tongues, to work miracles, these are called the grace of God; though some would distinguish between [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew],