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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 2
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5. This must also be acknowledged, That all the learning in the world cannot help us to a sanctified and holy understanding of the Scripture, no, not so much as the true interpretation of it without the Spirit of God: and if learned men cannot do it without Gods Spirit. much less unlearned. Therefore we must not oppose learning to grace, or to Gods Spirit. For how many have written Comments upon the Bible, that have been very learned men, yet from that sweet flower ⟨p. 9⟩they have turned all to poison, and through the corruption that was in their hearts, have made it a Book to vent all their heretical and damnable opinions? So that there must necessarily be the Spirit of God, besides learning, First, to lead us into all truth. And then secondly, to sanctify it to our own hearts in an experimental and powerful manner. For men may be very Orthodox, and yet know nothing of the work of grace upon their own souls.
5. This must also be acknowledged, That all the learning in the world cannot help us to a sanctified and holy understanding of the Scripture, no, not so much as the true interpretation of it without the Spirit of God: and if learned men cannot do it without Gods Spirit. much less unlearned. Therefore we must not oppose learning to grace, or to Gods Spirit. For how many have written Comments upon the Bible, that have been very learned men, yet from that sweet flower ⟨p. 9⟩they have turned all to poison, and through the corruption that was in their hearts, have made it a Book to vent all their heretical and damnable opinions? So that there must necessarily be the Spirit of God, besides learning, First, to lead us into all truth. And then secondly, to sanctifie it to our own hearts in an experimental and powerfull manner. For men may be very Orthodox, and yet know nothing of the work of grace upon their own souls.
These things explained concerning a two-fold consideration of Paul, as a sinner, and as a learned man. Let us make some practical Use of it. And