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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
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1. Because they were wholly ignorant of Jesus Christ, in whom alone is all the cause of comfort. Therefore he is called our Peace, and he is said to be the Prince of peace. Foelicissimum est cui non est opus foelicitate, and such an one is the man in Christ, for he will never thirst more than hath drunk of that fountain. No sin, no guilt, no curse can be removed, but by the blood of Christ. Insomuch that all their Philosophical precepts about comfort were as the influence of the Moon, which doth rather rotten than ripen in respect of the Suns influence.
1. Because they were wholly ignorant of Jesus Christ, in whom alone is all the cause of comfort. Therefore he is called our Peace, and he is said to be the Prince of peace. Foelicissimum est cui non est opus foelicitate, and such an one is the man in Christ, for he will never thirst more than hath drunk of that fountain. No sinne, no guilt, no curse can be removed, but by the bloud of Christ. Insomuch that all their Philosophical precepts about comfort were as the influence of the Moon, which doth rather rotten than ripen in respect of the Sunnes influence.
2. They were without the Spirit of Christ the efficient cause of comfort. Christ is the subject matter in whom alone we can have comfort; and the Spirit of God is the efficient cause that doth alone give a comfortable and glad heart.
3. They were altogether unbelieving of a Resurrection to leternal glory, which is an admirable ground of all true joy. This the Apostle presseth against immoderate sorrow about those that are dead, Not to grieve as those that are without hope.