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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 39
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Come we then to lead you up into the Mount of transfiguration, let us see even in this life, as far as our narrow hearts can comprehend, What are the good things God hath prepared for those that love him? And
Come we then to lead you up into the Mount of transfiguration, let us see even in this life, as farre as our narrow hearts can comprehend, What are the good things God hath prepared for those that love him? And
First, Take this for a foundation, That God comforts only through and by the ⟨p. 171⟩Scriptures. He must enter into this pool, that will feel these consolations descending upon him, he must buy this field of the Scriptures, that will have this pearl hidden there. The Spirit of God is that indeed which doth efficiently reach to the soul, and make it to receive comfort; but the means by which, or the harp (as it were) whereby the evil spirit of sorrow and dejection is removed, is by the word of God: So that as the Spirit of God doth powerfully change and alter the heart yet the word is organically and instrumentally used for that end. So though the Spirit of God be the Comforter, yet it is through the Word. Hence the Apostle Rom. 15. 4. That we through comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. And David doth not only admire the word of God, because it fore-warneth of sin, quickeneth up to duty, but also because it was a reviving, comforting Word, whereby he was kept from fainting, and being utterly overwhelmed in his troubles. And this is the more to be considered by the godly, that so they may not be deluded by false joys. When the Devil is said to transform himself into an Angel of light, 2 Cor. 11. 14. that is, into light of comfort, as well as of truth, There are false joys, there are comforts from the Devil, as well as doctrines of the Devil. The Papist hath his comforts. The Socinian, the Antinomian, all these have a spirit of delusion in their joys, as well as in their opinion. The Spirit of God doth first lead into truth, before it vouchsafeth comfort. But we detain you too long.