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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 25
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SERM. XXV.
Of the Nature of true Gospel peace, and wherein it chiefly consisteth.
2 COR. 1. 2. Grace be to you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
WE are now come to the second thing, which the Apostle doth so cordially wish these Corinthians, and that is Peace. Grace is the Cause, Peace is the Effect. Grace is the fountain, Peace is the stream.
VVE are now come to the second thing, which the Apostle doth so cordially wish these Corinthians, and that is Peace. Grace is the Cause, Peace is the Effect. Grace is the fountain, Peace is the stream.
This word Peace among the Hebrews, comes from a root signifying, to be whole and sound, because by Peace they did mean all good and prosperity, as by War, the Hebrew word coming from a root, signifying to eat and devour, they meant all misery and destruction. And among the Hebrews this was their ordinary salutation and greeting, Peace be to you, intending thereby all prosperity and happiness: And so some expound it here by Peace, understanding a prosperous and successful proceeding of all their affairs: But though this is not to be excluded; yet we take Peace in the same sphere with Grace; and as that did relate chiefly to spiritual things, so also must this Peace in the Text.