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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 34
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.
How God is the God of comfort, yea of all comfort and consolations to all those that are his.
2 COR. 1. 3. And the God of all comfort.
The next ground, why God is to be blessed, is, because he is a God of all comfort. Now although this might seem to be the same with the former, when he is styled the Father of mercies. Yet we may make that distinction, which Aquinas upon the place giveth, viz. That he is a Father of mercies, because he doth either prevent, or remove those miseries, that our sins do deserve; but he is the God of all consolation, in that, though our afflictions and tribulations be not taken away, yet while we are in them, he doth give many consolations, and causeth much joy in the heart. God therefore is called the God of comfort, in this respect, that though for just and wise ends, he will not deliver his people from sad exercises, yet he will in those exercises give them such strong cordials, and sweet revivings, that they shall not only have patience to bear them, but even joy in them.
THe next ground, why God is to be blessed, is, because he is a God of all comfort. Now although this might seem to be the same with the former, when he is stiled the Father of mercies. Yet we may make that distinction, which Aquinas upon the place giveth, viz. That he is a Father of mercies, because he doth either prevent, or remove those miseries, that our sins do deserve; but he is the God of all conselation, in that, though our afflictions and tribulations be not taken away, yet while we are in them, he doth give many consolations, and causeth much joy in the heart. God therefore is called the God of comfort, in this respect, that though for just and wise ends, he will not deliver his people from sad exercises, yet he will in those exercses give them such strong cordials, and sweet revivings, that they shall not only have patience to bear them, but even joy in them.