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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 37
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The next particular, which followeth in order, as the Text stands divided, is the Subject whom God doth thus comfort, and that is said to be Us, who comforteth us; that is, both us believers, in a general sense, and us Apostles, in a particular manner. For they being like Uriah in the fore-front of the battle; and more assaulted by the Devil within, and enemies without, they do need the greater comfort. But we shall handle it in the most large sense, and observe,
THe next particular, which followeth in order, as the Text stands divided, is the Subject whom God doth thus comfort, and that is said to be Us, who comforteth us; that is, both us believers, in a general sense, and us Apostles, in a particular manner. For they being like Uriah in the fore-front of the battel; and more assaulted by the Devil within, and enemies without, they do need the greater comfort. But we shall handle it in the most large sense, and observe,
That God is a God of all comfort unto believers only.1
- 1God is a God of comfort only to believers.
For this [Us] in the Text, is not only determinative, to show who they are into whose wounds God doth thus pour oil, but also restrictive to such and such only. Indeed the wicked ones of the world, may have comfort in outward mercies; They may rejoice in the good things of this life; and this is acknowledged by Solomon, To be a gift of God, but these worldly joys do become a sin, and a curse to them. The Poet said well,
For this [Us] in the Text, is not only determinative, to shew who they are into whose wounds God doth thus pour oyl, but also restrictive to such and such only. Indeed the wicked ones of the world, may have comfort in outward mercies; They may rejoyce in the good things of this life; and this is acknowledged by Solomon, To be a gift of God, but these worldly joyes do become a sinne, and a curse to them. The Poet said well,