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…

2 COR. 1. 5. So our consolation aboundeth by Christ.

The second absolute Proposition in the Text is, That our comfort aboundeth by Christ. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], is rendered by some Exhortation, but more generally and fitly Consolation. Though this be spoken in the singular number, and afflictions in the plural, yet this is to be understood collectively, as a treasure that hath all kind of comforts in it, not one or two, but all. Therefore the word [Greek or Hebrew], is here repeated again, aboundeth, which is to be understood, partly repletively, it filleth the hearts of those that do suffer for Christ; and partly diffusively, it extends also to the comfort of others. And then you have the cause of all this, By Christ. Christ who is the cause of their sufferings, is also the cause of their comfort. As from the same root proceedeth both the Rose and its pricks: Thus from Christ, the same Fountain cometh both bitter and sweet. Were not this added, who would suffer for Christ, who would lose all for him; but Christ hath so ordained it, that these sufferings are advantageous to us; and though we lose in the retail, yet we gain in the bulk and whole. Observe,

THe second absolute Proposition in the Text is, That our comfort aboundeth by Christ. The Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is rendred by some Exhortation, but more generally and fitly Consolation. Though this be spoken in the singular number, and afflictions in the plural, yet this is to be understood collectively, as a treasure that hath all kind of comforts in it, not one or two, but all. Therefore the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is here repeated again, aboundeth, which is to be understood, partly repletively, it filleth the hearts of those that do suffer for Christ; and partly diffusively, it extends also to the comfort of others. And then you have the cause of all this, By Christ. Christ who is the cause of their sufferings, is also the cause of their comfort. As from the same root proceedeth both the Rose and its pricks: Thus from Christ, the same Fountain cometh both bitter and sweet. Were not this added, who would suffer for Christ, who would lose all for him; but Christ hath so ordained it, that these sufferings are advantagious to us; and though we lose in the retail, yet we gain in the bulk and whole. Observe,