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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 27
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Although some expound that of the true and eternal God, who doth in just judgement harden the hearts of wicked men, Non impertiendo malitiam, sed denegando gratiam. But properly and truly it is attributed to the true God only, and he alone is here said with Christ, to be the Author of that Grace and Peace we have. From whence observe,
That God alone can vouchsafe this grace and peace to his people.1
- 1God alone can give grace and peace to his people.
This is part of Gods Regalia, There are many things that the creatures can do as second causes; but here God is the alone efficient. We remain, as it were, in so many tormenting Hells, till God cause his face to shine upon us. Hence (you heard) God is called the God of peace; and as it followeth in the next verse, The God of all consolation. As therefore God is the fountain of holiness, so that there cannot be the least degree of holiness wrought in thee, without it come from above, thou hast no free-will or power of thy own to procure it: So it is in matter of consolation and peace. There is not the least drop of comfort can fall into thy heart to refresh it, till God pour it into thee.
This is part of Gods Regalia, There are many things that the creatures can do as second causes; but here God is the alone efficient. We remain, as it were, in so many tormenting Hels, till God cause his face to shine upon us. Hence (you heard) God is called the God of peace; and as it followeth in the next verse, The God of all consolation. As therefore God is the fountain of holiness, so that there cannot be the least degree of holiness wrought in thee, without it come from above, thou hast no free-will or power of thy own to procure it: So it is in matter of consolation and peace. There is not the least drop of comfort can fall into thy heart to refresh it, till God pour it into thee.