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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 42
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In the third place, That is not to be called experimental knowledge, which may be accompanied with some kind of sensible affections. Mat. 13. the temporary believer received the word with joy. You see then, that some may have joy, and that from the Word, yet this not be the true saving knowledge or faith. Heb. 6. some are there also said, not only to be enlightened, but to ⟨p. 184⟩have tasted the good word of God. Here you may observe, that some may taste, may have joy; all which do infer some affectionate inward experimental workings on the soul, and yet not attain to have the true and honest heart: And the reason is, because these affectionate workings, they are but transitory, they quickly vanish away: There is no settled constancy or permanency in them. So that we are not to give credit to all the affections, nor to all enlargements that we may find in our selves, even about holy things, but we are to be sure that there be deep rooting enough. Hence
In the third place, That is not to be called experimental knowledge, which may be accompanied with some kind of sensible affections. Mat. 13. the temporary believer received the word with joy. You see then, that some may have joy, and that from the Word, yet this not be the true saving knowledge or faith. Heb. 6. some are there also said, not only to be inlightened, but to ⟨p. 184⟩have tasted the good word of God. Here you may observe, that some may tast, may have joy; all which do inferre some affectionate inward experimental workings on the soul, and yet not attain to have the true and honest heart: And the reason is, because these affectionate workings, they are but transitory, they quickly vanish away: There is no setled constancy or permanency in them. So that we are not to give credit to all the affections, nor to all inlargements that we may find in our selves, even about holy things, but we are to be sure that there be deep rooting enough. Hence