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…

Yea, Calvin thinketh, it is that infamous and wicked Narcissus, so ⟨p. 64⟩notorious wicked, and great with Nero, of whom Historians speak. Now when the Apostle salutes the men, and the Church in their house, it was, because there were no unbelievers, but all were of the Church. Howsoever it be, it's plain there were many believers in that family more than ordinary, and therefore called a Church, which should argue, That the Church of Corinth was a combined Church. That passage also makes it likely, 1 Cor. 14. 34. Let your women be silent in the Churches: Your women] therefore he speaks of the Corinthians there, who are said to have Churches; and yet here it is called a Church.

Yea, Calvin thinketh, it is that infamous and wicked Nar•issus, so ⟨p. 64⟩notorious wicked, and great with Nero, of whom Historians speak. Now when the Apostle salutes the men, and the Church in their house, it was, because there were no unbelievers, but all were of the Church. Howsoever it be, it's plain there were many believers in that family more than ordinary, and therefore called a Church, which should argue, That the Church of Corinth was a combined Church. That passage also makes it likely, 1 Cor. 14. 34. Let your women be silent in the Churches: Your women] therefore he speaks of the Corinthians there, who are said to have Churches; and yet here it is called a Church.

This will still appear the more likely, if we consider, that here were believing Jews, as well as Gentiles in this Church of Corinth, as Estius observeth in the Preface to the first Epistle. Therefore when the Apostle speaketh of some, who said they were of Cephas, that relateth to the believing Jews; yet because they were few comparatively to the Gentiles, therefore the Apostle writeth to them, as if all were Gentiles, as Chap. 12. 2. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to dumb Idols, &c. Hence the same Author saith, That it was one Church collected of all the believers in that place, Licet esse potuerint in eadem civitate distinctae, ut it a dicam parochiae. As for the notion of a learned man, That the Jewish believers, and Gentile believers did make two distinct Churches, and had two distinct Bishops, which he thinketh would salve some seeming contradictions in Ecclesiastical History, that being of an heterogeneous nature to my purpose, I pass it by.