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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
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2. Comfort is such a rare mercy, that unless God give it, it is not to be found in the heart of a man. For how can comfort and sin be together? Every man hath by nature forfeited all his comforts. There is not the least drop of comfort, but every man hath outed himself of it; so that man and the Devils are all alike in respect of deserts. As the Devil cannot any where gather up so much as a crumb of a comfort, so neither might any man living. The whole world might justly become an hell, and not one drop of comfort to be found in it. Therefore that God ⟨p. 151⟩is a God of comfort to a believer, it's an unspeakable mercy, for of himself cannot come any comfort, nothing but briars and thorns, nothing but hellish torments and despair, will naturally arise in our hearts. So that comfort is the more to be prized, because we have lost all, and might justly be as full of horror and fears, as we are of sin. As sin hath abounded, so not grace, but vengeance might abound much more. Hence
2. Comfort is such a rare mercy, that unless God give it, it is not to be found in the heart of a man. For how can comfort and sinne be together? Every man hath by nature forfeited all his comforts. There is not the least drop of comfort, but every man hath outed himself of it; so that man and the Devils are all alike in respect of deserts. As the Devil cannot any where gather up so much as a crum of a comfort, so neither might any man living. The whole world might justly become an hell, and not one drop of comfort to be found in it. Therefore that God ⟨p. 151⟩is a God of comfort to a believer, it's an unspeakable mercy, for of himself cannot come any comfort, nothing but briars and thorns, nothing but hellish torments and despair, will naturally arise in our hearts. So that comfort is the more to be prized, because we have lost all, and might justly be as full of horrour and fears, as we are of sin. As sin hath abounded, so not grace, but vengeance might abound much more. Hence