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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
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.
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,
O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habet!
Their very joys do become like wine to men in a fever, though refreshing a little, yet inflaming and increasing the disease more. So that these worldly joys, being not universal, nor pure and unmixed; yea being the seed of eternal grief and torment, therefore they may be well excluded from the name of joy, and the Doctrine be truly asserted, That God is a God of consolation only to believers.
Their very joyes do become like wine to men in a feavor, though refreshing a little, yet inflaming and increasing the disease more. So that these worldly joys, being not universal, nor pure and unmixed; yea being the seed of eternal grief and torment, therefore they may be well excluded from the name of joy, and the Doctrine be truly asserted, That God is a God of consolation onely to believers.