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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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Lastly, He is a Father, and therefore doth afflict us, and chastise us for our good. Insomuch that it is from his fatherly love to afflict us, as well as to give us of his mercies; and if as the Apostle urgeth, Heb. 12. 9. We reverenced our fathers after the flesh, when they chastised us, how much rather our Father after the Spirit? which cannot miscarry, or err in his afflictions upon us.
Lastly, He is a Father, and therefore doth afflict us, and chastise us for our good. Insomuch that it is from his fatherly love to afflict us, as well as to give us of his mercies; and if as the Apostle urgeth, Heb. 12. 9. We reverenced our fathers after the flesh, when they chastized us, how much rather our Father after the Spirit? which cannot miscarry, or erre in his afflictions upon us.
To this Doctrine let us add the Extension of it, Our Father. Paul saith not my Father, or the father of Abraham, and such eminent Saints, but our Father. Observe,
To this Doctrine let us adde the Extension of it, Our Father. Paul saith not my Father, or the father of Abraham, and such eminent Saints, but our Father. Observe,
God is a Father to the meanest and weakest believer, as well as the 1strongest.
- 1God is a Father to the weakest believer as well as the strongest.