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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 29
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.
I shall begin with the Praise it self, in those words, Blessed be God. Paul, you heard, begins most of his Epistles in this manner, and some have thought that all our prayers should begin with thanksgiving, because the heart is hereby ⟨p. 127⟩raised up sooner to Heaven. The consideration of Gods love being like the fire that will put the soul into sweet distillations. But certainly the method of prayer, whether with confession first, or thanksgiving, is not commanded, but left arbitrary: Only this the soul must remember, to be as diligent and careful in praising of God, as praying to God.
I shall begin with the Praise it self, in those words, Blessed be God. Paul, you heard, begins most of his Epistles in this manner, and some have thought that all our prayers should begin with thanksgiving, because the heart is hereby ⟨p. 127⟩raised up sooner to Heaven. The consideration of Gods love being like the fire that will put the soul into sweet distillations. But certainly the method of prayer, whether with confession first, or thanksgiving, is not commanded, but left arbitrary: Only this the soul must remember, to be as diligent and carefull in praising of God, as praying to God.
To open the word, the Scripture speaks of a three-fold Blessing:1
- 1Of a threefold blessing spoken of in Scripture.
1. Of Gods blessing of us.