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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 2
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We may more truly say, he hath attained to some good sufficiency in Christs school, who seeth more excellency in Paul's Epistles, than in all humane Writers. Paul ⟨p. 7⟩therefore had true and solid wisdom, and was also endowed with acquired abilities in humane learning. So that whereas Christ chose fishermen that were unlearned; here we see him making use of one that was skilful and learned. So that God can make use of all; and as Austin said, Qui dedit Petrum piscatorem, dedit & Cyprianum Rhetorem. So that we may observe,
We may more truly say, he hath attained to some good sufficiency in Christs school, who seeth more excellency in Paul's Epistles, than in all humane Writers. Paul ⟨p. 7⟩therefore had true and solid wisdome, and was also indowed with acquired abilities in humane learning. So that whereas Christ chose fishermen that were unlearned; here we see him making use of one that was skilfull and learned. So that God can make use of all; and as Austin said, Qui dedit Petrum piscatorem, dedit & Cyprianum Rhetorem. So that we may observe,
When men of great learning and parts are chosen by God and sanctified, they 1become eminently useful in their place.
When men of great learning and parts are chosen by God and sanctified, they 1become eminently usefull in their place.
- 1When men of great parts and learning are chosen by God and sanctified, they become eminently useful in their place Christs choosing of illiterate men to be Apostles, makes not for the choosing of such now to be public preachers.