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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 41
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Who would not think that the inward comforts, and soul-consolations, should not be wholly enclosed within our own breasts, that these should not be communicated to others? Who would not say of these, as Solomon in another case, Prov. 5. Let these fountains be only thine own, and not strangers with thee? Yet God giveth us these soul-comforts, that we may be able to revive and comfort many sad troubled hearts, which lie languishing for want of them.
Who would not think that the inward comforts, and soul-consolations, should not be wholly inclosed within our own breasts, that these should not be communicated to others? Who would not say of these, as Solomon in another case, Prov. 5. Let these fountains be only thine own, and not strangers with thee? Yet God giveth us these soul-comforts, that we may be able to revive and comfort many sad troubled hearts, which lie languishing for want of them.
The second Observation is, That those have the greatest ability and fitness to help the souls of others, who have had the experience and work of God upon their own souls.
The second Observation is, That those have the greatest ability and fitnesse to help the souls of others, who have had the experience and work of God upon their own souls.
First, Let us consider the former Doctrine, viz. That those great and spiritual works which God vouchsafeth to his children, are not for their own god only, but for the good of others. If he said in a political sense, Nemo sibi vivit sed patriae, it is much more true of a Christian, Non sibi vivit sed Ecclesiae. He liveth not to himself, but to the Church of God. Hence is that frequent comparison in the Scripture, of the Church of God, and a body together; making all Christians so many several Members, that if one rejoice, all must rejoice with it.