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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.
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.
2. Of our blessing of God. And these differ exceedingly. For God blesseth us efficiently by exhibiting his mercies to us. We bless God, not by adding any good to him, but declaratively only. Gods benedicere is benefacere, his words are works: but our blessing (as Aquinas on the place) is only recognoscitium, and expressivum, an acknowledgement only, and celebration of that goodness which God hath.
2. Of our blessing of God. And these differ exceedingly. For God blesseth us efficiently by exhibiting his mercies to us. We bless God, not by adding any good to him, but declaratively only. Gods benedicere is benefacere, his words are works: but our blessing (as Aquinas on the place) is only recognoscitium, and expressivum, an acknowledgment only, and celebration of that goodness which God hath.