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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 30
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In the last place, The universality of the mercies thou enjoyest, will much heighten in the consideration of them. All that thou seest, thou hearest, thou eatest, thou feelest, yea thou thinkest and apprehendest, is a mercy. There is nothing within thee, without thee, or about thee, but it is a mercy. To hear is a mercy, to see is a mercy, to think without madness and distraction, is a mercy. Every thing that is not hell, is a mercy to thee. All the creatures, as Psal. 8. ⟨p. 134⟩the Sun, the Stirs, the beasts of the field are wholly mercies; if then a man set himself to meditation after this manner will he not find the goodness of God, like Ezekiels waters, To ascend higher and higher, till they come over his head.
In the last place, The universality of the mercies thou enjoyest, will much heighten in the consideration of them. All that thou seest, thou hearest, thou eatest, thou feelest, yea thou thinkest and apprehendest, is a mercy. There is nothing within thee, without thee, or about thee, but it is a mercy. To hear is a mercy, to see is a mercy, to think without madness and distraction, is a mercy. Every thing that is not hell, is a mercy to thee. All the creatures, as Psal. 8. ⟨p. 134⟩the Sunne, the Sturres, the beasts of the field are wholly mercies; if then a man set himself to meditation after this manner will he not find the goodness of God, like Ezekiels waters, To ascend higher and higher, till they come over his head.
But to finish at last this Subject, take notice of the encouragements to this duty of a thankful, blessing and praising soul, that so if thy heart at last be throughly raised up to this duty, thou mayest praise God, for this truth that provoketh thee to praise him. And