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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 3
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It's not then Paul or Peter, but God himself whose Authority you despise, when you will not obey the commands in their writings; for they are but the Pen-men, or rather those that did dictate it; for Paul had some others sometimes to write his Epistles, as it's thought, Tertius wrote that to the Romans. Therefore because he wrote that to the Galatians with his own hand, he takes notice of it, Gal. 6. 11. that thereby they might be the more earnest against those false teachers, that would bring in the Ceremonial Rites for Justification; yet though the Holy Ghost did thus inspire and direct the holy Writers thereof, both for matter and words, that doth not hinder, but that it was in a suitable way to their Gifts and Parts; Therefore there is a great difference between the Prophet Isaiah's and Amos's Prophesies in respect of the style, and so of Luke and John.
It's not then Paul or Peter, but God himself whose Authority you despise, when you will not obey the commands in their writings; for they are but the Pen-men, or rather those that did dictate it; for Paul had some others sometimes to write his Epistles, as it's thought, Tertius wrote that to the Romans. Therefore because he wrote that to the Galatians with his own hand, he takes notice of it, Gal. 6. 11. that thereby they might be the more earnest against those false teachers, that would bring in the Ceremonial Rites for Justification; yet though the Holy Ghost did thus inspire and direct the holy Writers thereof, both for matter and words, that doth not hinder, but that it was in a sutable way to their Gifts and Parts; Therefore there is a great difference between the Prophet Isaiah's and Amos's Prophesies in respect of the style, and so of Luke and John.
Hence thirdly, Seeing the Scripture is thus inspired by God, and the Pen-men 1were moved by him in the composing of it, this should teach us to rest satisfied in the style and method of it. For the style, because it hath not the florid, and Rhetorical Ornaments, that humane Authors have, therefore some have disdained it. Yea, how many had rather read some quaint English Books, or Poets, or Orators, rather than that? Oh be ashamed of