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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
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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.
I shall briefly mention some grounds of this, because it will be more largely handled in the next verse.
First, God alone can give this grace and peace, Because he was at first the 1maker of the heart, he is the Father of all flesh, and of all spirits. Having therefore such an immediate dominion over the heart of man, to put into it what he pleaseth, to raise up what affections he will; no wonder if he alone giveth comfort. Elihu speaketh fully to this,