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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.
The Mediate way, is by those means which he hath appointed to be as Conduits running wine for us. And they are
1. The Scriptures. David professeth much quickening and comfort he had by them. So Rom. 15. 4. The comfort of the Scriptures. They are a cordial, a tree ⟨p. 161⟩of life; They direct to comfort, exhort to comfort all such as are poor in spirit.
1. The Scriptures. David professeth much quickning and comfort he had by them. So Rom. 15. 4. The comfort of the Scriptures. They are a cordial, a tree ⟨p. 161⟩of life; They direct to comfort, exhort to comfort all such as are poor in spirit.
2. The Ministers, They are sons of consolation and comfort. The Word they preach is [Greek or Hebrew], the joyful noise. Even the very feet of such who bring the glad tidings, are said to be blessed; They have a tongue of the learned, to speak a seasonable word for such as are contrite in spirit. They are not to quench the broken reed. Though to the obstinate sinner, we bring the hammer and fire of the Word; yet to the broken heart, we bring balm and oil.
2. The Ministers, They are sons of consolation and comfort. The Word they preach is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the joyfull noise. Even the very feet of such who bring the glad tidings, are said to be blessed; They have a tongue of the learned, to speak a seasonable word for such as are contrite in spirit. They are not to quench the broken reed. Though to the obstinate sinner, we bring the hammer and fire of the Word; yet to the broken heart, we bring balm and oil.