Page images
PDF
EPUB

THE

THEOLOGICAL

WORKS

OF

ISAAC BARROW, D.D.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME V.

CONTAINING

SERMONS ON THE CREED, EXPOSITIONS, &c.

OXFORD,

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCXVIII.

Clar: Press.

6. a. 8.

[blocks in formation]

Dead and Buried.

SERMON XXVII.

I COR. XV. 3.

For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Chrift died for our fins, according to the Scriptures.

ST. Paul, meaning in this chapter to maintain a very fun- SERM. damental point of our religion (the refurrection of the XXVII. dead) against fome infidels or heretics, who among the Corinthians, his fcholars in the faith, did oppose it; doth, in order to the proof of his affertion, and refutation of that pernicious error, premife thofe doctrines, which he having received both from relation of the other Apostles, and by immediate revelation from God himself, had delivered unto them, v páros, in the first place, or among the prime things; that is, as most eminent and important points of Chriftian doctrine; the truth whereof confequently (ftanding upon the fame foundations with Chriftianity itself, upon Divine revelation and apoftolical teftimony) could nowife be difputed of, or doubted, by any good Chriftian. Of which doctrines (the collection of which he styleth the Gospel; that Gofpel, by embracing and retaining which they were, he faith, to be faved) the firft is that in our text, concerning the death of our Lord, undergone by him for our falvation: which point, as of all others in our religion it is of peculiar confequence, fo it much concerneth us both firmly to believe it and well

[blocks in formation]
« PreviousContinue »