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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
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First, We must know, that God hath several attributes tending to the same thing, 1yet do not jonally differ. There is his Goodness, whereby he is willing to communicate of his fullness to the creature. Thus he was good to Adam, making him so glorious a creature. There is his Mercy, and that is, whereby he pitieth his creature, being cast into misery. There is also his Patience and Long-suffering, which is extended to sinners that do for a long time rebel against him, when he could, if he pleased, destroy them every moment in hell. And lastly, here is this property of Grace, whereby he is called a gracious God: And this the Scripture doth speak of, as the most glorious and comfortable attribute; and that doth imply these things:
First, We must know, that God hath several attributes tending to the same thing, 1yet do not ionally differ. There is his Goodness, whereby he is willing to communicate of his fulness to the creature. Thus he was good to Adam, making him so glorious a creature. There is his Mercy, and that is, whereby he pitieth his creature, being cast into misery. There is also his Patience and Long-suffering, which is extended to sinners that do for a long time rebell against him, when he could, if he pleased, destroy them every moment in hell. And lastly, here is this property of Grace, whereby he is called a gracious God: And this the Scripture doth speak of, as the most glorious and comfortable attribute; and that doth imply these things:
- 1Propositions discovering the nature of the grace of God.
1. That whatsoever good God doth bestow upon us, it cometh solely and originally 1from his mere bounty and good pleasure. So that there is nothing in us, that may in the least manner, either merit with God, or move him to be thus gracious. So that we can never hear of this word [Grace] but it should presently humble and debase us, it should make us condemn our selves, and give all to God. For if it be of grace, than there was no motive in us, God out of his own bowels doth this for us,