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…

The highest in Gifts and Graces, should desire the Prayers of the Meanest: And People ought to Pray for their Ministers, as well as Ministers for their People.

2 COR. 1. 11. You also helping together by Prayer for us.

This Text you heard, is declarative of the means which were to be used by the Corinthians, that the mercy Paul trusted in God for, might be accomplished. The means, that is Prayer, but a labouring Prayer, and with accord and agreement; yea, such an helping in Prayer, as is a debt of service, and ministration to their spiritual guides. The word [Greek or Hebrew], when taken strictly, and distinctly to other words that are also rendered prayers and supplications; (as some would expound that place, 1 Tim. 2. 1.) doth signify prayer only in this limited sense, as it is a deprecation against some evil, rather then a petition for some good; and in this sense it may very well be used here. But because we see the Scripture commonly using it in a more large sense, neither will we restrain it in this place. From the former part then of this Verse, there remain further Doctrines observable. As

THis Text you heard, is declarative of the meanes which were to be used by the Corinthians, that the mercy Paul trusted in God for, might be accomplished. The meanes, that is Prayer, but a labouring Prayer, and with accord and agreement; yea, such an helping in Prayer, as is a debt of service, and ministration to their spirituall guides. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, when taken strictly, and distinctly to other words that are also rendred prayers and supplications; (as some would expound that place,