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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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Secondly, In the original, and the efficient cause; is it from God, from the 1Spirit of God? Or from the devil, who may harden thy heart, and make thee have such joy as mad men have, not feeling their own misery? The comfort and the joy that is truly so, is still attributed to God and the Holy Ghost, as the fountains thereof.
- 12. Are they from the Spirit of God?
Thirdly, Doth thy experience of Consolation make thee more humble and empty? 1Doth it drive thee out of all thy vain carnal confidences? This argueth it cometh from God, if with the Centurion, when Christ cometh to thy soul, thou sayest, Lord, I am unworthy this joy, this consolation should enter into me. And therefore the more comfort, the more lowly and debased in thy own eyes: And never more, then when the most joy. This is a good experience of comfort, as coming from God. So also, if this comfort be conducing to holiness, if by this thou art more quickened to mortify sin, to subdue the corruptions that remain; if this be like oil to the wheels, thou art more fervent, more 2zealous in all holy duties, then make much of this comfort, for it cometh from Heaven. If then we have the experience of Gods working upon our souls, both in the way of grace, and the way of comfort, then, and never till then, are we fitted to deal with the souls of others. And there are these Reasons:
Thirdly, Doth thy experience of Consolation make thee more humble and empty? 1Doth it drive thee out of all thy vain carnal confidences? This argueth it cometh from God, if with the Centurian, when Christ cometh to thy soul, thou sayest, Lord, I am unworthy this joy, this consolation should enter into me. And therefore the more comfort, the more lowly and debased in thy own eyes: And never more, then when the most joy. This is a good experience of comfort, as coming from God. So also, if this comfort be conducing to holinesse, if by this thou art more quickned to mortifie sinne, to subdue the corruptions that remain; if this be like oyl to the wheeles, thou art more fervent, more