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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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2. This peace of God worketh as a consequent from the former, a gracious contentation of soul under all conditions and estates. So that whatsoever befall him, he is the Lapis quadratus, he is built on a Rock, nothing can overwhelm his peace; grieved he may be, sadded he may be, because of some passages even from God against him, yet his peace he is never to let go, for that alone makes the soul contented. Though his conditions alter, and he is tossed up and down several ways, yet because of peace with God, he can follow the Apostle Paul, and though with disproportion say, I know how to abound, and how to want; I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, Phil. 4. 12. Whereas if this peace of God be taken from the soul, then is the heart of a man like one burning in an hot fever, tossing from one place to another, hoping to find some ease, but can obtain none.
2. This peace of God worketh as a consequent from the former, a gracious contentation of soul under all conditions and estates. So that whatsoever befall him, he is the Lapis quadratus, he is built on a Rock, nothing can overwhelm his peace; grieved he may be, sadded he may be, because of some passages even from God against him, yet his peace he is never to let go, for that alone makes the soul contented. Though his conditions alter, and he is tossed up and down several wayes, yet because of peace with God, he can follow the Apostle Paul, and though with disproportion say, I know how to abound, and how to want; I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, Phil. 4. 12. Whereas if this peace of God be taken from the soul, then is the heart of a man like one burning in an hot feaver, tossing from one place to another, hoping to find some ease, but can obtain none.
3. This peace of God filleth the heart with joy and boldness at the throne of grace. For as when the Sun ariseth, the dark clouds they are scattered; Thus when the peace of God doth shine into our souls, then the heart is filled with joy in the holy Ghost,