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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
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.
Furthermore, There are preventing, or privative mercies, and there are positive mercies. Now the Rule is, Plures sunt gratiae privativae quam positivae, more privative favours than positive. Did not God prevent, what innumerable evils might arise every day to destroy thee? When we pray for daily bread, in that we comprehend all kind of outward bodily mercies; so that if the Lords hand were not always giving, we could not abide a day. Now seeing that by sin we are made obnoxious to all the curses in the Law, To be cursed at home, and cursed abroad. How manifold are Gods preventing mercies to us? What evil might every day bring forth to thee? What a sad night might every night be to thee, if Gods preventing mercies did not compass thee about?
Furthermore, There are preventing, or privative mercies, and there are positive mercies. Now the Rule is, Plures sunt gratiae privativae quam positivae, more privative favours than positive. Did not God prevent, what innumerable evils might arise every day to destroy thee? When we pray for daily bread, in that we comprehend all kind of outward bodily mercies; so that if the Lords hand were not alwayes giving, we could not abide a day. Now seeing that by sinne we are made obnoxious to all the curses in the Law, To be cursed at home, and cursed abroad. How manifold are Gods preventing mercies to us? What evil might every day bring forth to thee? What a sad night might every night be to thee, if Gods preventing mercies did not compass thee about?
Lastly, We might instance in private mercies, and public mercies. But what hath already been spoken, may abundantly confirm us, That God is the Father of mercies.
Lastly, We might instance in private mercies, and publick mercies. But what hath already been spoken, may abundantly confirm us, That God is the Father of mercies.