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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 33
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Secondly, In this expression of Father of mercies, is not only comprehended 1the multitude of them, but the diversity also, he is the Father of all kind of mercies, God hath an unexhausted treasure of mercy. Therefore the Scripture calls God rich in mercy, Ephes. 2. 4. Though God be rich in wisdom, in power, yet the Scripture calls him only rich in mercy, as if herein he did most excel. Now from this treasury arise all kinds of mercies. Do not say, God may by his mercy help ⟨p. 145⟩me in this particular, and in that respect, he can give me bodily mercies, but can he give soul mercies? He can give private mercies, but can he give public mercies? Yes, we have too low and narrow thoughts of God, if we limit him to any kind of mercy, he can do the greatest as well as the least. Let us instance in some kind of mercies. As
Secondly, In this expression of Father of mercies, is not only comprehended 1the multitude of them, but the diversity also, he is the Father of all kind of mercies, God hath an unexhausted treasure of mercy. Therefore the Scripture calls God rich in mercy, Ephes. 2. 4. Though God be rich in wisdom, in power, yet the Scripture calls him only rich in mercy, as if herein he did most excell. Now from this treasury arise all kinds of mercies. Do not say, God may by his mercy help ⟨p. 145⟩me in this particular, and in that respect, he can give me bodily mercies, but can he give soul mercies? He can give private mercies, but can he give publick mercies? Yes, we have too low and narrow thoughts of God, if we limit him to any kind of mercy, he can do the greatest as well as the least. Let us instance in some kind of mercies. As
- 1Of the variety of Gods mercies.