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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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Lastly, God through Christ being thus the fountain of all consolation, hence it is that he doth most genuinely and properly of himself, show mercy and vouchsafe comfort. Even as the Bee of it self makes honey, but never stings, except when provoked. Thus if we walk not always comfortably, if we live not in holy joy and gladness of heart, this ariseth from our selves. The vapours that turn into storms and thunder come from our own bowels, otherwise God would always be communicating consolations to us; we shut out the light from us, we turn sweetness into bitterness. Thus the Psalmist saith, That God doth not afflict willingly. The works of justice are commonly called alienum opus; but Gods works of justice are his proper works, as well as of mercy; only our sins stir him up, and provoke him to the one, but his mere goodness and mercy inclineth to the other, so that now God would always fill the hearts of his children with rejoicing, did not they obstruct it themselves.
Lastly, God through Christ being thus the fountain of all consolation, hence it is that he doth most genuinely and properly of himself, shew mercy and vouchsafe comfort. Even as the Bee of it self makes honey, but never stings, except when provoked. Thus if we walk not alwayes comfortably, if we live not in holy joy and gladness of heart, this ariseth from our selves. The vapours that turn into storms and thunder come from our own bowels, otherwise God would alwayes be communicating consolations to us; we shut out the light from us, we turn sweetness into bitterness. Thus the Psalmist saith, That God doth not afflict willingly. The works of justice are commonly called alienum opus; but Gods works of justice are his proper works, as well as of mercy; only our sins stirre him up, and provoke him to the one, but his meer goodness and mercy inclineth to the other, so that now God would alwayes fill the hearts of his children with rejoycing, did not they obstruct it themselves.
In the third and last place, he is said to be the God of all consolation. There is 1the extent of it, All consolation, which implieth,