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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 43
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now there are these Reasons, Why those who are afflicted, though never so able and gracious, yea excellently skilful to comfort others, yet they themselves need help from others in their temptations:
Now there are these Reasons, Why those who are afflicted, though never so able and gracious, yea excellently skilfull to comfort others, yet they themselves need help from others in their temptations:
First, Because their temptations do darken and obnubilate their own judgements, 1and so they are not able to see that ground, and those arguments of comfort, which others may. It is with them, as those who would behold their face in a broken glass, or in muddied streams; like those that look through a green glass, they judge every thing green; while judgement is kept clear, though faith be weak, yet still there is some support; but then is the soul wholly cast down, when the eye is become darkness, when in stead of a Father it apprehends God a Judge; when instead of beholding the gracious works of Gods Spirit in themselves, they think they see nothing but hypocrisy and rottenness in themselves. Oh now how welcome is such an one of a thousand, who show to that man his uprightness!2
First, Because their temptations do darken and obnubilate their own judgements, 1and so they are not able to see that ground, and those arguments of comfort, which others may. It is with them, as those who would behold their face in a broken glass, or in muddied streams; like those that look through a green glass, they judge every thing green; while judgement is kept clear, though faith be weak, yet still there is some support; but then is the soul wholly cast down, when the eye is become darkness, when in stead of a Father it apprehends God a Judge; when instead of beholding the gracious works of Gods Spirit in themselves, they think they see nothing but hypocrisie and rottenness in themselves. Oh now how welcome is such an one of a thousand, who shew to that man his uprightness!