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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 38
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 Text saith, all tribulation, let it be what it will be. Do not say, Every tribulation but mine; Take heed of thinking thy dungeon is so dark, that no ray or beam of this Sun can come unto thee. For as Paul argueth in another case, Heb. 2. 8. In that all things are put under subjection to Christ, it is manifest he left nothing that is not put under him. So in that God comforteth in all tribulation, it is manifest, that there is no tribulation exempted, or left out. Take heed of that profane Question, Is God the God of the hills, as well as of the valleys? ⟨p. 167⟩Think not that God is limited, so as if there were some kind of water that he cannot turn into wine; some stones that he cannot convert into bread. But let us explain this. And
The Text saith, all tribulation, let it be what it will be. Do not say, Every tribulation but mine; Take heed of thinking thy dungeon is so dark, that no ray or beam of this Sunne can come unto thee. For as Paul argueth in another case, Heb. 2. 8. In that all things are put under subjection to Christ, it is manifest he left nothing that is not put under him. So in that God comforteth in all tribulation, it is manifest, that there is no tribulation exempted, or left out. Take heed of that prophane Question, Is God the God of the hils, as well as of the valleys? ⟨p. 167⟩Think not that God is limited, so as if there were some kind of water that he cannot turn into wine; some stones that he cannot convert into bread. But let us explain this. And
First, God doth comfort his people in all tribulations, for the several kinds of 1them. The tribulations that may fall upon the people of God are of such different sorts, that it is very difficult to number them, as it is the sand upon the Seashore; yet we may divide them into these two sorts, The soul-troubles in the general, or spiritual ones; and the external, or temporal ones, In both these God will not leave his people comfortless. Their spiritual troubles, they may empty themselves into several channels. As