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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 44
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2. God is said to chastise us for our profit, which is expressed to be, That we might be partakers of holiness. Tribulations then are very profitable and advantageous things, though flesh and blood can hardly say so. It may be thy afflictions have done thee more good, than all the mercies thou ever hadst. And therefore under every exercise, examine, What profit have I got? Wherein am I made more holy? And then
2. God is said to chastise us for our profit, which is expressed to be, That we might be partakers of holinesse. Tribulations then are very profitable and advantagious things, though flesh and blood can hardly say so. It may be thy afflictions have done thee more good, than all the mercies thou ever hadst. And therefore under every exercise, examine, What profit have I got? Wherein am I made more holy? And then
3. At the 11th verse, after the grievous and burdensome way of them for the present, afterwards they will yield a peaceable fruit of righteousness. The chastening doth but seem grievous, and that for the present, but afterwards ⟨p. 193⟩it makes more holy, which is said to be the peaceable fruit of it. The soul that raged and fretted, finding the benefit, begins then in a peaceable quiet manner to bless and praise God for it. This is a General comfort. Every godly man may say, this belongs to me in my afflictions, as well as to any other.
3. At the 11th verse, after the grievous and burdensome way of them for the present, afterwards they will yeeld a peaceable fruit of righteousnesse. The chastening doth but seem grievous, and that for the present, but afterwards ⟨p. 193⟩it makes more holy, which is said to be the peaceable fruit of it. The soul that raged and fretted, finding the benefit, begins then in a peaceable quiet manner to blesse and praise God for it. This is a General comfort. Every godly man may say, this belongs to me in my afflictions, as well as to any other.