Eleven Choice Sermons, Part 2 · Analysis of contents
A methodicall Analyſis of the chiefe heads treated on in theſe Sermons, upon the 1 CORINTH. 2. 2.
1. Context.
1 Occaſion of the Epiſtle, miniſtred by.
1. Information of thoſe of the houſe of Cloe.
2 Inquiry of thoſe of the Church of Corinth
2. Argument of the Epiſtle,
1. Complaint of corruptions, to Chap. 7.
2. Reſolution of queſtions.
Complaint of corruptions.
1. Perſons guiltie.
1. Magiſtrates.
2. Preachers.
3. Whole Presbyterie.
2. Severall maladies.
1. Permitted.
1. Schiſme,
1. Broken out with arrogancy.
2. Not bound up with charity.
2. Inceſt,
1. Committed by vilanie.
2. Not controlled by authority.
3. Law ſuits,
1. Proſecuted at heathen Courts.
2. Not taken up by Chriſtian care.
3. Cure, 1. Of Schiſme, from 10. verſ. of 1. Chap, to 5.
1. Intimated.
1. Premiſes his Letter ſent by Timothie. 4. 17.
2. Promiſes to come himſelfe, 19.
2. Expreſſed.
1. Summe of the Letter, an exhortation to unitie.
1. Propoſition ſuppoſed, 10.
2. Aſſumption whetted with interrogations, v. 13
3. Concluſion.
1. Propoſed.
1. Sweet intreatie.
2. Sound authoritie.
verſ. 10.
2. Iterated, 14. verſ. of 4. Chapter.
2. An objection.
1. Inſinuated, verſ. 12.
2. Removed, where.
1. Cauſes of their diſorder.
1. Bewitching tongues of teachers.
2. Itching eares of hearers.
2. Cure: where is expreſſed,
1. Dutie of people: they muſt not eſteeme too highly of their Miniſters: for,
1. They are but the Lords Servants.
2. The Corinthians ſervants in the Lord.
2. Duty of Miniſters in Pauls example: in which
1. Efficient
1. God, peremptorily commanding.
2. Paul, voluntarily obeying.
2. End.
1. God intends his glory, Chap. 1.
2. Paul attends the Peoples good, Chap. 2.
1. God commands Paul ſo to doe, v. 17. of 1. Chap. to the end.
2. Paul determines to do ſo.
3. He did ſo.
2. Text, with the context containes.
1. A generall precept,
1. What they muſt preach, in the Text.
1. For matter, Christ Ieſus only.
2. For manner, with all humilitie.
2. Why they muſt preach, in the text and context.
1. God commands it.
2. It is the Miniſters duty, from the ends he ſeekes.
1. Gods glory, not his owne applauſe.
2. The peoples ſalvation, not his approbation.
3. How they muſt preach.
1. Not in humane wiſdome.
2. Plainly and humbly.
2. An illuſtrious example of Paul.
3. Text alone: where,
1. The Miniſters duty, which is more naturall to the ſcope.
1. Expreſſed in Pauls example.
2. Enforced: as it containes.
1. A precept concerning the argument of preaching:
2. An argument to provoke us to that precept.
1. Paul did thus, therefore none exempted.
2. He did this, not out of raſhneſſe, but deliberated what to do.
3. He determined not ſo much as to know.
4. Not any thing.
5. No not amongſt the Corinthians, ſave Chriſt crucified.
Obſerve, That if Paul upon theſe termes would not, then no Miniſter upon any termes muſt preach any thing, but Ieſus Chriſt and him crucified.
2. The duty of every man, which is more generall in the order of nature. Doct. That the knowledge of Ieſus Chriſt crucified, is ſufficient to Salvation.
2 Explication, two things to be conſidered▪
1 Appretiation
2. Appropriation,
1. Gift.
2. Conveyance
1. Gift, Chriſt is a ſufficient Saviour.
1. What is meant by ſalvation: where is conſidered,
1. The utmoſt end and chief happineſſe of man.
2. His preſent ſtate by nature.
2. How Chriſt hath ſufficiently wrought ſalvation for us.
1. Explained,
1. He hath redeemed us from all miſery.
1. Of ſin.
1. Original impuritie.
2. Actualimpiety.
2. Of puniſhment.
2. He hath filled us with all good things.
1. Holines.
2 Happines
2. Proved,
1. By 3. things in the text,
1. He is Chriſt.
2 He was crucified forus
3. He is Ieſus.
2. Scripture.
2. Conveyance: Faith is ſufficient to make him our Saviour.
1. Explication.
1. What faith is.
2. How it comes to be ſufficient.
2. Prooved.
1. Faith in Chriſt is the ſumme of Divinity.
1. Doctrine of Divinity, Chriſt being,
1. The foundation of faith.
2. The fountaine of obedience.
2. The rule of Divinity; conſidered in a double difference.
1. Before Chriſt.
1. Before the Law.
2. VnderUnder the Law.
2. After Chriſt.
1. Before the Law, this was the Religion of,
1. Adam.
2. Abraham.
2. VnderUnder the Law, they were lead to Chriſt by,
1. Their Sacraments.
1. Ordinary.
2. Extraordinary.
2. Ceremonies.
1. Sacrifices.
1. Propitiatory.
2. Gratulatorie.
2. Holy perſons.
3. Holy places.
3. In the times of the Goſpell.
2. Chriſt is the ſcope of all the Scripture in Generall.
1. As the immutable ſubſtance of the Rule is conſidered.
2 As it may bee accommodated to the mutable circumſtances of the rule, according to the difference of time.
He is the ſumme,
1. Of the old Teſtament in
1. Propheticall,
2. Hiſtoricall Scriptures.
2. New Teſtament.
Application.
1. Confutation of Popiſh errours, out of the 3. particulars ſeverally.
1. If Chriſt be a ſufficient Saviour, then
1. Saints are no Saviours.
2. Sinners cannot be their own Saviours.
2. If Chriſt be the ſumm of the Scriptures, then
1. The Scriptures are perfect.
2. They are perſpicuous.
3. If Chriſt be the ſum of divinity, then we may know.
1. What is the true Religion.
2. How to unmask Antichriſts counterfeit religion.
2. Exhortation out of all joyntly.
1. For Miniſters, what is the rule of preaching.
2. For all, what muſt be the ſcope and aime of all our ſtudies.
1. Confutaſion,
1 Saints are not Saviours, therefore not to be invocated: where is diſcovered,
1. Generall Idolatry of the Synogogue of Rome.
2. More eſpecially, the worſhip of Saints, in which,
1. They have made the way crooked.
2. They have made it wide.
3. They have made the gate wider.
4. They have made many gates.
3. More particularly, in the worſhip of the Virgin Mary, convinced both
1. By Scripture.
1. Iohn 2. 4.
1 Iohn 2. 2.
Revel. 19. 20.
1 Tim. 2. 5.
Epheſ. 3. 12.
2. By Reaſon.