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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 36
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.
We begin with that efficiency given to God, who comforteth, is comforting, and observe,
That as God is the God of all comfort, so he doth actually put forth this comfort 1to those that are his.
- 1God not only can, but doth comfort his children.
Gods attributes may be truly affirmed of him, though they never be put forth ⟨p. 158⟩into act, God would have been Omnipotent, Merciful, Wise, though he had not created the world, only the creation of the world did demonstrate those Attributes. Thus God may be called, The God of comfort, or a merciful Father, in respect of his Nature and Inclination, though actually he doth not comfort any; but God is a fountain communicating himself into streams of comfort, he will make his people taste and feel what he is by Nature. Now when it's said, That God comforteth, you must understand this both in temporal and spiritual comforts. That spiritual comfort comes alone from God is plain, because the Spirit of God is called the Comforter. We cannot have one drop of heavenly consolation, till Gods Spirit infuse it into us. If the children of God could have comfort when they will, would they walk so disconsolately, and cry out of their dark troubled souls as they do, but then even earthly comfort, to take delight in the lawful contentments God doth allow us, to take delight and joy in these corporal mercies, this is also from God, Eccles. 2. 24, 26.