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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 26
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WE are treating upon this admirable and unspeakable privilege of Peace from God. It is a Peace from God, and it is a Peace with God. You have heard several particulars going to the constitution of it, there yet remain more.
WE are treating upon this admirable and unspeakable priviledge of Peace from God. It is a Peace from God, and it is a Peace with God. You have heard several particulars going to the constitution of it, there yet remain more.
In the next place therefore, This peace here prayed for, is a peace in heavenly considerations, because our persons are justified, our sins are forgiven, therefore we have peace. As Rom. 5. 1. there is an external worldly peace, which the natural men of the world only desire; let them live in peace and security, let them have the good things of this world, with the peaceable enjoying of them, this is the utmost of their desire, they think this is enough. We see this notably, Ezek. 13. 10, 16. where the people desire such Prophets only, that will prophesy of peace to them. Peace is so loved, that therefore wicked men do so extremely hate the faithful Messengers of God, because they proclaim no peace to them; they inform them of Gods wrath and vengeance against such; now this cutteth them to the very heart: They delight only in such ⟨p. 113⟩peacemongers, that though they go on in all wickedness and profaneness, yet you must tell them all is well, sow pillows under their elbows, that they may lie down in security. Men that desire to sleep, love not to hear any noise; but the Peace in the Text, is not bred from such base and low materials. When the wicked man is deprived of his pleasure, his profits, then all his peace is gone: but the godly doth many times partake in the most powerful manner of this peace, when they are in the most afflicted and wretched estate, because this peace is within, and upon spiritual grounds. And therefore when the godly many times have most of outward troubles; they do richly abound with this spiritual inward peace. Hence it is that a gracious spiritual heart doth only prize it, and pray for it: The natural man not perceiving these things, which must be spiritually discerned.