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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 40
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2 COR. 1. 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation.
WE were discussing this third particular in the Text, but that one main doubt may present it self, the discussing whereof is very useful in a practical way. It is this, Seeing Paul speaketh thus generally, God comforteth us in all our tribulations, doth not this necessarily infer, that all the children of God in all straits are full of comfort? And if this be so, either we must condemn many, who in all appearance are the dear children of God, for hypocrites and unsound, because they have no comfort: Yea all divine means have been used, and yet they cannot be comforted, or else we must question the truth of this Scripture. This Text saith, God comforteth his in all their tribulations: Experience telleth us, That many of Gods children are sadly disconsolate, or else if their want of comfort be an argument, they do not belong to God, we shall then pass an uncharitable censure upon those who are every way to be accounted of as precious Saints, and that of the first magnitude.
WE were discussing this third particular in the Text, but that one main doubt may present it self, the discussing whereof is very usefull in a practical way. It is this, Seeing Paul speaketh thus generally, God comforteth us in all our tribulations, doth not this necessarily infer, that all the children of God in all straits are full of comfort? And if this be so, either we must condemn many, who in all appearance are the dear children of God, for hypocrites and unsound, because they have no comfort: Yea all divine means have been used, and yet they cannot be comforted, or else we must question the truth of this Scripture. This Text saith, God comforteth his in all their tribulations: Experience telleth us, That many of Gods children are sadly disconsolate, or else if their want of comfort be an argument, they do not belong to God, we shall then passe an uncharitable censure upon those who are every way to be accounted of as precious Saints, and that of the first magnitude.